October 1

Tony Morris Most people with degrees in performance end up teaching. Tony Morris started his own national radio show...

October 1

No Time for Golf Famed cellist and School of Music professor Bion Tsang talks about his love of teaching, compares cellos to cars, and explains why recording a new set of J.S. Bach might be his biggest challenge yet.

October 1

Key Master Charles Ball and his team of technicians keep 260 pianos in top condition year round, balancing the demands of students, faculty and performers. Find out what it takes to be the Key Master

October 1

Opposite Attraction Installation and performance artist Leona Scull-Hons uses her work to explore contradictions— showing just how fine a line can separate what we call "repulsive" and "beautiful".

September 3

On the Trail of Inspiration... This year, as part of the Land Arts of the American West program, 12 visual-art students will "study abroad" just a couple states away—and spend 11 weeks finding art in the desert

July 16

All the drama you can... 10 days, hundreds of students, 45 performances, classes, and panels—the Department of Theatre and Dance breaks a leg with the sophomore David Mark Cohen New Works Festival.

July 1

Breakfast with Elliot Elliot Forrest, UT alumnus and host of A&E's "Breakfast With the Arts," shares his love of fine arts with a popular audience via radio, television, and a brand-new walking tour of the New York City theatre district.

July 2

Inside the Digital Stage Department of Theatre and Dance professor Yacov Sharir has been changing the definition of 'choreography'—using computers to design dancers and movement on the cutting edge of a new art form.

July 1

Scenester The PAC's Karen Maness works at the intersection of visual art and performance—"painting big" for the other side of stage production.

July 1

The View from the Top University of Texas at Austin graduate student and carillonist Kim Schafer talks about playing in the Tower, the difficulties of anonymous performance and her own "Stairway to Heaven."

May 19

The Case of the Missing Vase Denise Schmandt-Besserat first set foot in Iraq in 1971. She was a young Radcliffe Fellow researching the origins of the human use of clay, and she spent her days at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad poring through boxes of ancient artifacts. Now a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, she joins scholars the world over in questioning the fate of the irreplaceable antiquities housed at the museum, which was looted in April.

March 3

Deciphering the Maya Each year millions of tourists travel to Mexico’s Yucatán to visit the ruins of Chichén Itzá. For many, Chichén Itzá offers a first glimpse into the world of the Maya, the most advanced ancient civilization on the American continent. The grandeur of its buildings and the mysterious beauty of the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorn them inevitably stagger the visitor. And the treacherous climb to the top of Chichén Itzá’s central pyramid offers a view of the world that the Maya inhabited for thousands of years—dense jungle populated by jaguars, iguanas and myriad birds, and scattered with temples and religious structures.

January 5

Performers Unearth Fresh Terrain When the theatre collective Rude Mechanicals (known as Rude Mechs) decided to create a play about the genius and inventor Nikola Tesla, they didn’t opt to offer the audience the expected birth-to-death biography. Instead, they imagined a world where Tesla sits down on stage with a Martian, where Tesla and Thomas Edison speak into microphones while screwing and unscrewing light bulbs and where Tesla’s direct addresses are punctuated by dance numbers.