By Astoria Jellett
Hedy Weiss: a Life in Arts Journalism
Hedy Weiss started as a dancer and choreographer in New York City and quickly became one of the nation’s leading theatre and dance critics, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1984. She is also a contributing editor to Dance Magazine and a host of other publications and television shows. In the Arnold Hall auditorium on March 29, she discussed her life, career and philosophy of art. “Beauty can make you dizzy,” she said. “I try to get dizzy on art and beauty. Beauty isn’t interesting without tension.”
George Williams and James Lough: From Texas to Paris, Beats and Punks
Professors George Williams and James Lough read from their new books at the SCAD Museum of Art on April 4. Williams has won a Pushcart Prize and read a story from his new collection, “Gardens of Earthly Delight.”
“This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Punks, Beats, and Fugitives at New York’s Notorious Chelsea Hotel” is Lough’s thirteen-year project on the famous Chelsea Hotel; he entertained the crowd with a chapter on Dee Dee Ramone. They lingered for questions afterward, detailing the writing process.
Oxford American
Magazine Editor Marc Smirnoff founded Oxford American in 1992 after moving to Oxford, Miss. from Northern California. He was struck with the artistic richness of the region, especially its writing, and so this unique and treasured literary quarterly came to be. During the lecture on April 5 at Arnold Hall, Smirnoff stressed that the South cannot be represented accurately by stereotypes.
Oxford American is looking for submissions that help to combat the tired-out image of the region and allow readers from across the country to get to know the South from a more dynamic perspective.
