Liam Otten

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum collection reinstallation to feature loans from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

As a first-year student at Washington University in St. Louis, Sanchali Pothuru took an introductory screenwriting course taught by Richard Chapman, a senior lecturer in film and media studies in Arts & Sciences. She still remembers the first assignment.

Seven films by Washington University in St. Louis students will be featured in the 2024 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. Organized by Cinema St. Louis, the festival highlights work written, directed, edited and/or produced by St. Louis natives and by those with strong local ties.

In “Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA,” Patty Heyda, of Washington University in St. Louis, charts the forces that have shaped Ferguson and other first-ring American suburbs since the early 1980s. Tax incentives, housing codes, roadways, policing, philanthropy, even landscaping — all can work against the fundamental betterment of residents’ lives.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s” beginning Sept. 13. With nearly 300 architectural drawings, models, photographs, films, digital maps and artworks, “Design Agendas” is the first major exhibition to examine how interlocking civic, cultural and racial histories, as well as conflicting ideological aims, reshaped the city.

Aerial view of the St. Louis riverfront after demolition for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch), c. 1942. (National Park Service, Gateway Arch National Park, V106-4838)

Richard J. Walter, a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. He was 85.

Chicago, 1938. Three women take rooms in a seedy hotel. Each awaits a low-down snake of a man.

Speakers include Mimi Hoang, Toni L. Griffin and Josephine Halvorson

'Reflecting on Reproductive Justice'symposium Sept. 5-7 to feature MacArthur'genius' awardee