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The Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum at The University of Texas at Dallas. Photo: Morphosis.
Special Issue: The Edith and Peter OโDonnell Jr. Athenaeum
The Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum
The opening of Phase I and the groundbreaking of Phase II of the OโDonnell Athenaeum on Sept. 24 showcase the magic of whatโs possible when we come together to expect the best, and bring it to life with imagination, focus and fortitude.
Building to Inspire
Some of the most important spaces on campuses are the spaces in between the buildings, the walkways, plazas, green spaces. For the buildings within the Athenaeum to be successful, they need to be connected to these exterior spaces.
The Dragon’s Pearl
Unlike the dragons of the West, the dragons of East Asia are benevolent, compassionate creatures, combining the best attributes of several animals: the talon of the eagle, the head of the lion, and the body of the serpent.
From Texas to the World
๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ assembles for the first time artworks in the DMA collection that resulted from gifts of the McDermotts, Greens, and the Jonsson Foundation, as well as works acquired during the DMA directorships of Brettell and Pitman.
Advancing Creativity, Innovation, and Cultural Enrichment
Every day, UT Dallas students and their instructors strive to make great music. Whether through individual practice, ensemble rehearsals, or studying musicโs rich history, form, and theory, their hard work is evident in every performance.
The Arts in the University
The Writing on the Wall
There are a handful of ways that writing goes on the wall, but the most sensuous I know is a certain size of vinyl letter.
A Place in the Sun
Over the last few years, many academic art museums have been renovated and expanded, often after big, even heroic capital campaigns.
How to Make Great Art More Accessible
Academic art history and the art museum grew up together in 1820s Prussia.
Why We Need the Athenaeum
McGilchrist sees ultra-materialism as delusory because human beings, unlike linear and sequential machines, are complex systems.
Literary Lives
AI and the Futures of Literature
As I watched ChatGPT instantly blurt out a โpoem about Shiva in the style of Amit Majmudarโ that turned out rhymed quatrains, I fell to wondering about the future of literature.
American Outlaws
Hyden discerns in โBorn in the U.S.A.โ a compromise necessary for a massively popular arena-rock act intending to speak to as large an audience as possible.
The Quiet Ticking of Minutes
Rather than compressing monumental developments into a few minutes of reading time, ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ข๐๐ attempts to recreate the experience of living that life, encouraging the reader to inhabit the quiet ticking of minutes passing by as these women write shopping lists, forage for mushrooms, or supervise repairs.
Translating the Chinese Diaspora
For many of the characters in Yanโs stories, particularly those who find themselves alone in a foreign land, the feeling of always wishing to be elsewhere captures a state of longing that appears to be the most permanent fixture of their interrupted lives.
The Two Lives of a Poet
There are passionate and delicate love poems that bring the landscape to life: โwith blown pine needles the wind / writes loveโs calligraphy upon the snow.โ
Mutability and Mortality
Perhaps my favorite in this set of personal homages is โOde to the Arts and Humanities Staffโ which sings the praises of the otherwise unseen and unsung heroes, the clerical and support staffs that keep universities and academic departments running.
