Arts and Culture

A just-published collection of essays, "Progressive Black Masculinities," edited by Athena D. Mutua, associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School, focuses on reinventing the ideal of the black man, suggesting new models that transcend the cultural racism and violence of the old ideal.

Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., is one of five individuals to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. The award is one of the state's highest honors for humanitarian service and pays tribute to New Yorkers who have made major contributions to human and civil rights.

Award-winning filmmaker Elliot B. Caplan will open the Spring 2007 Humanities Institute Lecture Series at the University at Buffalo with his new feature-length documentary film, "Hidden Things: A Children's Story."

Top University at Buffalo professors will make presentations aimed at increasing public awareness of rapidly advancing fields in the 2007 Cutting Edge Lecture Series, five Saturday-morning seminars sponsored by UB's College of Arts and Sciences.

"The significance of the Department of Media Study at Buffalo for the media age is comparable to the influence of other historical institutions of art history such as Black Mountain College in North Carolina or the Bauhaus." Those words introduce a major exhibition at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, which has a worldwide reputation as a cultural institution.

Three new studies by a University at Buffalo psychologist offer the first known evidence that some people anxiously expect that they will be rejected by others because of their physical appearance, and that this sensitivity, if not mitigated, has serious implications for their mental and physical health.

"The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," an article by John Peradotto, Ph.D., of Amherst, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, has been included an anthology of 13 of the most important articles on the Greek playwright Aeschylus published in the past 50 years.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Aaron Lewis of Staind at 8 p.m. on April 4 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Feb. 2.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Decemberists at 8 p.m. on March 30 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Feb. 2.

The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and riverrun, Inc., will team up to present an elegant program in February about lesser-known aspects of Buffalo's most celebrated adopted son, James Joyce.