Arts & Culture

  1. We’re with the band

    Members of the New York Philharmonic get in tune with U-M students on stage and on the field during a rousing fall residency.

  2. Curiouser and curiouser

    Novelist Nicholas Delbanco falls through the looking glass of high fashion and discovers its strange bedfellow, literature.

  3. From super fan to Super Bowl

    Emmy-winning director Haley Geffen, BA ’99, takes her creative playbook to one of the biggest fields in sports today.

  4. The kitchen is open

    “Kitchen sisters” Niki Serras, BA ’06, and Alisha Serras, MSW ’06, grew up in their father’s Main Street restaurants. Who better to trust with your kitchen redesign?

  5. Welles in his own words

    It was an archivist’s dream come true recently when the U-M Library staff unearthed portions of a raw draft of Orson Welles’ incomplete, unpublished memoir.

  6. M is for MAD

    MAD magazine’s Sam Viviano, BFA ’75, reflects on how he became (or still dreams of becoming) a rich and famous illustrator.

  7. Prison arts work

    For 25 years, the Prison Creative Arts Project has inspired inmates statewide to mine fertile, creative territory and create bold, original work.

  8. Tiger by the tale

    Bookish historian Alice Dalligan, AM ’48/AMLS ’51, became a bona fide baseball nut when sportscaster Ernie Harwell donated his archive to the Detroit Public Library in ’66.

  9. (Festi)fools rush in

    Annual celebration of art in public spaces brings whimsy, color, and “3-d kinetic sculpture” to the streets of Ann Arbor.