Secret Sciences: The Hidden Arts of Alchemy
Secret Sciences examines alchemy, from its scientific applications to its complicated symbolic language and its influence on the arts.
Event Location: John M. Olin Library
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Data Services New Faculty and Graduate Student Meet and Greet
View EventNew faculty and graduate students are invited to meet the Data Services team and learn more about the services offered...
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Book Making Workshop: Tunnel Books (PM Session)
View EventLearn how to make your own tunnel book, a three-dimensional moveable book inspired by photography and theater sets in the...
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Book Making Workshop: Tunnel Books (AM Session)
View EventLearn how to make your own tunnel book, a three-dimensional moveable book inspired by photography and theater sets in the...
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MADness Unleashed: The World of MAD Magazine
MADness Unleashed is an overview of MAD Magazine and its place within American culture with items from the Jim &... -
Rogers Broadside
A July 1776 edition of the Declaration of Independence known as the Rogers Broadside was loaned to the WashU Libraries... -
Domesticated Pulp: Archie Publications and the Comics Code
The Comics Code Authority enforced a set of guidelines in a period of censorship and regulation for over fifty years,... -
The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
Alumni Harley Hammerman has made the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections an important center for O’Neill studies. -
Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
Wicked Women explores the connection between whiteness, gender, and violence in women carrying out acts of mass violence and discrimination. -
Beauty in Enormous Bleakness Exhibition Opening & Reception
View EventBeauty in Enormous Bleakness (BiEB) and its affiliated exhibition explores architecture’s relationship to issues of immigration, exclusion, and cultural identity...
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Stanley Elkin’s “Pieces of Soap”
In 1990 novelist Stanley Elkin published an essay about his “accumulation” of travel soaps. Published in Art & Antiques magazine,... -
Book Making Workshop: Calligraphy
View EventJoin us for a brief introduction to Calligraphy, including a short history of lettering through the ages, with a focus...
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