Arts News from the Chronicles


Spotlight on the Arts: Focus on Film

Bayou Maharajah screening, Q&A sells out Ciné theatre By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu   Every seat in the house was filled at Cinè Monday night for the showing of Bayou Maharajah, a film directed by UGA alum Lily Keber and produced by UGA Grady telecommunications professor and Peabody…

Spotlight on the Arts 2013

This year's Spotlight on the Arts kicks off later this week, and in the interest of helping you navigate the tremendous volume of events happening all over campus, here are the events that are most fine-and-performing-arts-centric, in the opinion of your humble Chronicles blog: The Lamar Dodd…

UGA Opera Theatre present Bizet's Carmen

The title itself almost conjures the Habanera melody all on its own. Such a great pleasure - the Hodgson School presents Georges Bizet's Carmen on Thursday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m.: The performance, part of both the UGA Spotlight on the Arts Festival and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2nd Thursday…

Russia expert presents Shouky Shaheen Lecture

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Priscilla Roosevelt, one of the leading Western experts on aristocratic life in imperial Russia, to present the annual Shouky Shaheen Lecture on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art.  Roosevelt's lecture on…

Miniature Monumental

I just returned from a sneak preview of Dodd Professorial Chair Kendall Buster's exhibition and... the opening is tonight and you should go. The Lamar Dodd Distinguished Professorial Chair Kendall Buster is a sculptor who brings to her work a study in microbiology and a fascination with the…

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