"Maestro and the Dance!" On Display until March 2015

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I'm pleased to announce that the Open House and launch of Xipe Project's newest exhibit, The Maestro and the Dance was quite the success! The event took place on Saturday, December 6th between 3PM and 7PM and we have had nothing but positive feedback since.

It was a pleasure to meet and work with Dr. Rhonda Taube and her husband, Dr. Karl Taube. Hopefully, it was the first of many more joint projects!

(Group Shot) From left to right, our museum Director Peter Markman; our Curator Dr. Alison Heney; our incredible guest speaker Dr. Rhonda Taube, and Dr. Karl Taube; our installation guru Adam Kirkpatrick of Hangman Designer Services; and our dedicated docents David Vasili Michel, Chris Roberts, and Dr. Jesse Hoffman.



Modernist Studies Association 15: Brighton

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Modernist Studies Association 15: Brighton Seminar: Modernist Fantasy

Leaders: Glenn Willmott & Leif Sorensen

Many genres of fantastic writing flourished in the pulps, comics, children's literature and film in the early twentieth century.  Although horror, fantasy and SF were important to the everyday culture of the modernist era, high modernism and the fantastic are rarely studied together.  How does the popularity of fantastic writing complicate existing narratives of modernist reading and writing practices?  Are certain ontologies, aesthetic strategies, approaches to character and subjectivity, ethical situations, or political concerns peculiar to modernism and fantasy?  We welcome participants who wish to discuss the significance of fantasy writing as a cross current in elite and popular cultural production.