Arts & Culture

Taking a cue from NPR’s popular Tiny Desk series of concerts, a group of IU students have launched Tiny Dorm Concerts, a YouTube series straight out of Briscoe Residence Hall.…

IU’s Eskenazi Museum of Art made an appearance in The New Yorker in October 2018. At issue was a key piece of the museum’s collection: a rare pair of busts…

“Yabba dabba doo! Bootzilla is here!” With that funkadelic introduction, genre-defining funk bassist Bootsy Collins brought his signature starry-eyed swagger to the IU tune “Indiana Fight.” Collins remixed the song…

In New Orleans, within walking distance of bustling Bourbon Street, patrons will find Jewel of the South and Manolito—two bars owned and operated by Nick Detrich, ’07. The Indiana native…

The word “origami” usually conjures images of delicately folded paper cranes, flowers, and sailboats. What it doesn’t immediately bring to mind is building-size structures that can shelter and support human…

Breath | Light | Stone is a 15-minute film conceived and co-directed by Allen Hahn and Elizabeth Shea, both professors in the IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance.

In the summer of 1896, a twenty-six-year-old art historian and recent graduate of Harvard University, Alfred Mansfield Brooks, made the long trek cross country to the relatively young Indiana University…

Studying organ at IU in the late 1960s, Dennis James, BM’74, MM’79, got the inspiration for a musically accompanied silent movie series after taking a film history class. In 1969,…

Scattered across seven floors and thousands of shelves, you’ll find them, pampered and padded for their protection, cozy in a climate set just for their comfort. They are the artifacts…

What do a suffragist-era mug, a statue of Benjamin Harrison, and an Indy 500 racing suit have in common? They’re just a few of the 400 objects the IUPUI University…

On the southern coast of Mexico’s isthmus, in the centuries-old city of Juchitán, a child dips his hand in paint and presses his palm against a stone wall—one of the…

Jodie Bailey, BA’06, MFA’10, is not just a hat maker. She’s a joy maker. Featured in the Fall 2018 issue of the IU Alumni Magazine, Bailey shared with writer CJ Lotz,…