Fifth Biennial Grant Wood Symposium celebrates the legacy and time of the artist, who was written out of art history. By Claire Dietz [email protected] Everyone is familiar with Grant Wood’s...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] Like all art, music is a catalyst for memory, meant to replicate the emotions of the writer and performer, to some extent, in its audience. For composer David...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] On the eve of the Miss America pageant, three women — dichotomous in ideology and profession — face off in a Georgia hotel room. One is a liberal social-media...

To celebrate the Halloweekend, the Daily Iowan Arts & Culture staff members have joined forces to bring readers a smattering of the area’s holiday-theme events. Whether you prefer spending your nights...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Yaa Gyasi will read at Prairie Lights at 7 p.m. today. By Claire Dietz [email protected] Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of the universally acclaimed Between the...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] When friends pitch a notion such as “Let’s do a play” or “We should make a movie together,” often, nothing comes of it. In the case of Caitlin Rose Edwards,...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected]   When Esperanza Spalding’s self-titled 2008 debut was released to the public, they embraced it with delight. Her jazz -- a dizzying, tri-lingual...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] Outside of the countless English novels, essays, poems, and articles you’ll never read, there’s a world of writing — writing you might have loved —...

Breakout artist D.R.A.M will take the IMU stage today at 8 p.m. By now, the music video’s scene should be familiar: the rappers D.R.A.M. and Lil Yachty — both clad in white — ankle deep in a river....

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] Rita Dove — former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and the recipient of numerous lifetime-achievement Awards — is not yet ready to retire her voice. “A...

Inspired by the work of modernist master Jacob Lawrence, Step Afrika aims to bring the stories of African American migration, heritage, and culture to the Hancher stage By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] The...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Kathryn Lockwood, a member of the Lark Quartet, plays the viola. Her husband, Yousif Sheronick, plays percussion. While their instruments make it seem as if...