Freehand sketching is practically in my DNA, yet I had never felt so amateur when I began illustrating Leisha Stanek — my first time drawing a live model.
By cash or check, 12 artists were allowed...
Nearly two years after debuting at the Cincinnati Opera, “Fierce” is coming to Iowa City’s Hancher Auditorium.
The 21st-century opera follows the trials and triumphs of four teenage girls as they...
Content warning note: This article discusses themes of sexual assault.
When her grandfather gifted her an old camera years ago, Jiayi Liang started taking pictures as a way to feel closer...
When Anahita Ghazvinizadeh began at the University of Iowa as an assistant professor in the Cinematic Arts department in 2018, she was excited by the number of successful alumni and the many opportunities...
Global popstar Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19. Die-hard Swifties have anticipated the album since it was announced at the Grammy Awards in...
Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers released her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” on April 12. It’s certainly worthwhile, but I walked away mostly unfulfilled.
My feelings about this album...
Starting up a new literary magazine can be a difficult and time-consuming ordeal, filled with many challenges along the way.
It was worth it, however, for the University of Iowa students behind Cease...
Iowa was once 70 percent natural tallgrass prairie, housing native plant species like purple coneflower, butterfly milkweed, and
big bluestem.
Today, however, less than 0.1 percent of those prairies...
Guy Ritchie, the mind behind “The Gentlemen,” returned with another soon-to-be classic war flick, collaborating with “Top Gun” producer Jerry Bruckheimer to bring “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly...
There are experimental films, and then there is the Zellner Brothers’ new release “Sasquatch Sunset.”
Released on April 19, the film adopts a pace and aesthetic not unlike those in “2001: A...
Aaron Pang’s show “Herein Lies the Truth” is a strange concoction of comedy, visual performance and full-throttle storytelling that forces us to examine our own unintentional biases towards the...
The stage for “Vanya” opened as a small room dotted with three chairs, a plastic stool, a table with a lamp, and a bottle of liquor. A doorway at center stage served as the gateway between a wide...
