Getting a tattoo in college seems typical; it is the time for rebelling, taking risks, and trying new things. Beyond tropes of spontaneity and defiance, though, these tattoos represent students’ identities and act as visual portrayals of important times in their lives. 

Most art galleries present art in spaces that feel perfect, untouched, and far removed from the way people live. “Maintenance Request,” the one-night exhibition curated by seniors Maya Iskoz and Max Schreiber, celebrated the opposite. 

After 2 1/2 years of development, the Saint Louis Art Museum  (SLAM) unveiled German artist Anselm Kiefer’s “Becoming the Sea” exhibit on Oct. 18, 2025. The exhibit, which encompasses nearly 30,000 square feet, has proven to be one of SLAM’s most ambitious undertakings in recent years.

 It’s the hottest question in college philosophy debates, a question that is boiling the blood of many creatives and instilling a subtle but growing fear that the very core of what makes us human is being slowly usurped and nullified by machines: Can artificial intelligence make art? It seems that AI has done a pretty good job of convincing us that it can create works comparable to those of the great masters — sometimes doing it better.

Kornbluh laid down a potential framework for analyzing “mid art”  or “good-enough art,” as she put it.

Bustling commerce, delightful aromas, and hundreds of footsteps pattering on the ground. Sounds like a scene out of an alternative, bespoke art market in New York City, right?

We group other art forms like comic books, graffiti, digital art, and more as lesser-than as well, but when we perpetuate this stereotype on these types of media we cut ourselves off from the power of their art. In doing so, we simultaneously cut ourselves off from different perspectives.

Carl Phillips, Professor in the Poetry MFA Program at Washington University, spoke about his journey of self-discovery through poetry writing during his talk, “Pressure Against Emptiness: On Making, Being Made, and What is Made” for the first lecture in the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series, April 1.

Melanie Ho, author and professional speaker, gave a talk as this month’s Gender Equity Month Keynote Speaker about women’s professional experience in the workplace based on her award-winning book “Beyond Leaning In,” March 26. 

Alpha Omega, a city-wide chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosted a political art exposition titled “This Little Light of Mine,” Jan. 31.