Five photographs from Kinsey Institute’s collections on display in Paris exhibition

Five photographs in The Kinsey Institute‘s art collection are on loan to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where they are part of the “Masculine/Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day” exhibition. Kinsey Institute curator of art, artifacts and photographs Catherine Johnson-Roehr said she was contacted by one of the curators […]

IU contemporary dance professor’s new work to premiere

IU Bloomington contemporary dance professor Elizabeth Shea has choreographed a new work titled “Minor Bodies” that will premiere Oct. 19 in Detroit, Mich. You can watch a snippet of it above. The piece will be performed by two dancers in the Detroit-based Eisenhower Dance troupe. It came about after the troupe’s founder and artistic director […]

Historical art exhibit created what feels like modern political drama

Jenny McComas, one of the IU Art Museum’s curators, was kind enough to give me a quick tour recently of the museum’s current exhibition, “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy.” It was an experience to simply view the art, including a beautiful Georgia O’Keeffe that I wanted to take home […]