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(03/14/15 11:49am)
Soon, there will no longer be a French studies department, Spanish and Portuguese department, German studies department, Latin American studies department or classical studies department. Effective July 1 for the 2015-16 academic year, the School of Humanities is merging its smallest departments into two larger ones: the department of classical and European studies and the department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies.
(02/24/15 7:59pm)
Rice recently closed on its third Rice Village purchase within the last year. In February, Rice acquired the 7,500-square-foot retail building on the corner of Kelvin Drive and Times Boulevard that holds stores such as Miss Saigon Cafe, Yum Yum Cha Cafe and GraceAnne’s Boutique. The Houston real estate website Swamplot estimates the building sold for a little under $4 million.
(02/18/15 10:20am)
If you enter the McMurtry College commons this weekend, beware. You are entering a world of murdered children, torture and deceit. You are entering a totalitarian police state. You are entering The Pillowman.
(10/29/13 12:00am)
Memorizing lines, blocking scenes and taking on the roles of characters are elements of a play that most casual theatergoers are familiar with. The immense time and effort the crew contributes to a production, however, often remains elusive to people not involved in the production themselves.
(09/17/13 12:00am)
It is with dreams of greatness that Rice students plow on, day by day. As of Sept. 1, one group of Rice University alumni has achieved this greatness. The Dover Quartet, formerly the String Quartet in Residence at the Shepherd School of Music, swept the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, regarded by many as one of the most important string quartet competitions in the world.
(09/06/13 12:00am)
Darra Keeton is a professor emeritus of drawing, painting and print-making in the Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. Keeton joined the faculty in 1993 as a sabbatical replacement and was eventually granted tenure and awarded Rice's Phi Beta Kappa award for teaching in the mid-90s.
(04/18/13 12:00am)
Soundtap.com's competition called "Madness" brought together top college radio stations across the country April 1-12 in a terse competition of grit and music to determine the most listened-to station.
(04/05/13 12:00am)
When artists look at a door, they see not a door out an entrance to other cultures, one people can decide to open in close.
(03/08/13 12:00am)
On Wednesday afternoon, six students visited a nonprofit media arts center called the Aurora Picture Show to learn about the history and use of film as an art medium, an event organized by Art Lab.
(01/24/13 12:00am)
At 7 p.m. on Jan. 18, McMurtry College hosted a meeting of 22 students: six writers, four directors and 12 actors. With only the Rice Players' thematic guideline off which to work, these students wrote, directed and performed four one-act plays within 24 hours. The theme of this year's fourth annual Play in a Day event: "I can't feel my (blank)!"
(01/17/13 12:00am)
Prepare yourselves, Rice University students. Sooner than you know, your hipster friends, laboratory partners, engineering roommates and those athletes you have never spoken to will be sharing their artistic talents at the second annual undergraduate-led CelebrateART Festival, Jan. 25-26. This year's festival, similar to last year's, will be held in and around the Rice Memorial Center and will showcase student works in visual arts, photography, film, music, dance, performance and fashion. The festival, sponsored in part by Rice Public Art, the Rice Student Activities President's Programming Fund and Saint Arnold Brewing Company, has expanded from one to two days in order to spread out the acts so that festival attendees will be able to experience more of the events.
(11/30/12 12:00am)
In the past month, students may have heard talk of an art panel, a new thrift store in the Rice University Memorial Center, or even a fabled "zine." Hipsters may not be infiltrating Rice, but Art Lab is.
(11/16/12 12:00am)
In Rice University's hyperscientific and technologically focused environment, art sometimes seems marginalized.
(11/09/12 12:00am)
All self-respecting, at least minimally talented, writers have, in rare moments of productiveness, promised themselves that they will write a novel. It is rare, sadly, for such well-intentioned thoughts to ever come to fruition. Rare, that is, unless you are Brown College junior Gabriela Sposito.
