http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:28 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34527 Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/05/silence-olli/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/05/silence-olli/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:00:57 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33929 Drawing its inspiration from John Cage, a six-week OLLI course delves into art, music, film, neuroscience, bliss, edginess, paradox and more in what Susan Hoffman, OLLI's director, calls "an experiment" in experiential learning.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/05/silence-olli/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/playwrightalum-stan-lai-to-discuss-creativity-asian-culture-in-campus-visit/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/playwrightalum-stan-lai-to-discuss-creativity-asian-culture-in-campus-visit/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:10:24 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33893 The prolific director/playwright Stan Lai comes home to the Berkeley campus to talk about contemporary theater, culture and creativity in Asia and the United States -- and what the world would be like without theater.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/playwrightalum-stan-lai-to-discuss-creativity-asian-culture-in-campus-visit/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/28/fall-2012-coming-attractions-politics-rhinos-and-the-ave/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/28/fall-2012-coming-attractions-politics-rhinos-and-the-ave/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:38:23 +0000 Sara Leavitt http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32715 Hot topics and cultural lightning rods, Glass and Guthrie, sublimity and absurdity. It's — what else? — the fall events season at UC Berkeley. Experts share their perspectives on topics ranging from health care to to the presidential election. A staging of the Philip Glass opera "Einstein on the Beach" and music from the Simon Bolivar youth ensemble are among the performing-arts treats.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/28/fall-2012-coming-attractions-politics-rhinos-and-the-ave/feed/ 0 http://www.calperformances.org/performances/2011-12/ojai/ojai-north.php?tab=1 http://www.calperformances.org/performances/2011-12/ojai/ojai-north.php?tab=1#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:04:00 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=31890 Cal Performances' Ojai North! series begins November 11 with a special event — Steven Schick conducting John Luther Adams's expansive spatial work for 9 to 99 percussion and piccolo players — outside Hertz Hall.]]> http://www.calperformances.org/performances/2011-12/ojai/ojai-north.php?tab=1/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/24/cal-performances-announces-2012-13-season/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/24/cal-performances-announces-2012-13-season/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:01:06 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27511 Matías Tarnopolsky’s third season as director of Cal Performances, announced Tuesday, will feature 113 artists and ensembles in music, dance and theater performances ranging from Bach to Ionesco, Swan Lake to Einstein on the Beach.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/24/cal-performances-announces-2012-13-season/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/03/new-director-for-townsend-center-for-the-humanities/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/03/new-director-for-townsend-center-for-the-humanities/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:20:32 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27223 Alan Tansman will direct the Townsend Center for the Humanities, starting in July.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/03/new-director-for-townsend-center-for-the-humanities/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/02/bishop-berkeley-doe/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/02/bishop-berkeley-doe/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:58:50 +0000 Steven Finacom http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24551 An 1873 portrait of the campus's namesake, in storage for 15 years, will hang permanently in the Heyns Room of Doe Library. The painting by John Weir is part of the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/02/bishop-berkeley-doe/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/12/magnes-collection-of-jewish-life-and-art-opening-jan-22/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/12/magnes-collection-of-jewish-life-and-art-opening-jan-22/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:05:19 +0000 José Rodríguez http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23298 The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life to welcome the public to its new home with a Jan. 22 open house.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/12/magnes-collection-of-jewish-life-and-art-opening-jan-22/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/14/bampfa-advances-plans-for-new-facility/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/14/bampfa-advances-plans-for-new-facility/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:35:54 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16527 The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, at a Sept. 14 community meeting, shared plans for its future home in the downtown Berkeley arts district. Designed by the renowned New York City-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), the project will re-purpose the former UC Printing plant at Oxford and Center streets, tying it in with an exciting new multipurpose structure.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/14/bampfa-advances-plans-for-new-facility/feed/ 0 http://artstudio.berkeley.edu/ http://artstudio.berkeley.edu/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:02:03 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16039 BERKELEY —]]> http://artstudio.berkeley.edu/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/28/year-end-concerts/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/28/year-end-concerts/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:45:40 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=10668 UC Berkeley’s University Symphony and University Chorus ensembles cap off every school year with a special collaborative concert, and this year’s May 6-7 fundraising performances promise to be especially powerful. Musical pieces will include composer Johannes Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and both will feature internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood of the Metropolitan Opera.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/28/year-end-concerts/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/04/jero-berkeley-japan-award/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/04/jero-berkeley-japan-award/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:00:25 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=8123 Jero, a Japanese-African-American singer credited with reviving popular interest in Japan’s postwar sentimental ballads known as enka, will receive the 2011 Berkeley Japan New Vision Award from UC Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies in a private ceremony on campus Friday, April 8, and will perform a short, free concert at Wheeler Hall after receiving the award.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/04/jero-berkeley-japan-award/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/23/meditation-dance/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/23/meditation-dance/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:49:23 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=6246 The body is a dancer’s instrument, but is it attuned to the mind? A new study from UC Berkeley suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice Vipassana or mindfulness meditation.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/23/meditation-dance/feed/ 0 http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/performances/2010-11/special_events/vpo.php http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/performances/2010-11/special_events/vpo.php#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:03:50 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=6118 The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs in the Bay Area for the first time in over 20 years. The orchestra's Berkeley residency offers a wonderful survey of beloved music from the Classical and Romantic eras to masterpieces of the 20th century. ]]> http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/performances/2010-11/special_events/vpo.php/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/24/events-3/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/24/events-3/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:00:03 +0000 Sara Leavitt http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=4758 Spring semester is packed with rare treats for fans of the arts, including visits by world-class orchestra and ballet companies, a four-day music festival, talks by noted authors and a visit from the newest Supreme Court justice.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/24/events-3/feed/ 0 http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/stillness http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/stillness#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:08:14 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=4931 This new exhibit, opening Jan. 26 at the Berkeley Art Museum, features major prints by expatriate American artist James McNeill Whistler, a prolific and innovative printmaker, painter and watercolorist.]]> http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/stillness/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/10/maddayout/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/10/maddayout/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:12:39 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://ucbnews.org/newsdb/?p=947 "Mad Day Out," an exhibit of 25 never-before-exhibited photographs of the Beatles taken at random London locations one day in July 1968]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/10/maddayout/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/30/events/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/30/events/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:09:46 +0000 Wendy Edelstein http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1557 This semester's rich range of cultural offerings includes a daylong cornucopia of free arts performances, as well as appearances by violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff, the much-loved Mark Morris Dance Group, director and outside-the-box thinker Peter Greenaway, and bestselling writer David Sheff. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/30/events/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/23/fallfreeart/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/23/fallfreeart/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:49:47 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1681 The University of California, Berkeley, is opening up the campus this fall for free, public arts programming that will feature dance, music, prize-winning poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, multidisciplinary collaborations and debate about the role of art in the world today. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/23/fallfreeart/feed/ 0