Picasso is well known for his Blue Period, but can contemporary art sustain a Green Period? On Wednesday at 4 p.m., speakers from Washington University and the local community will meet to discuss the relationship between the arts and the environment. Those who attend will participate and guide the discussion.

Washington University Libraries received a $550,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—the largest grant it has ever received. University Libraries will soon use the grant money to preserve Henry Hampton’s award-winning Civil Rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.

Films about the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, the election of the first female African president, multicultural clashes in France and protests of Burmese monks will arrive at Washingotn University this weekend.

“Go see what the center of the universe looks like,” one character says to another in Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock.” And the film is just that, a look into the center of American culture in 1969. But “Taking Woodstock” does not solely focus on the festival itself, as Michael Wadleigh’s documentary “Woodstock” does. Instead, more attention is given to the lead-up to the festival and the true story of the family who brought it to Bethel, N.Y.

A year new for class and a new year for film. Though the better films tend to roll out at the end of the year for the Oscar push, some gems sneak into the spring and summer months. Here are the movies I’m most looking forward to in the first half of 2009. 10.  “I [...]

If you were doing some late night studying at the Danforth University Center (DUC) a few weeks ago, you may have thought you were hallucinating when you saw Batman, Joker and other characters from “The Dark Knight” all dining together in the Orchid Room. This strange sight was no hallucination, but rather an independent film [...]