When an Exit is an Entrance: The 2003 Student Art Show
Rachel Morey’s hat took the director’s prize at Exit, the 40th Rice Student Art Exhibition. It was more than a hat, it was sculpture you could stick on your head.

by Kelly Klaasmeyer

Beauty Optional
Does art have to be beautiful? That was the issue raised by Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, during his talk, titled “Beauty and Politics,” given at the Dominique de Menil Memorial Lecture, an annual part of the Rice University President’s Lecture Series.

by Dana Benson

Kennedy Center Selects Shepherd School for New Program
The Shepherd School of Music is one of eight leading music conservatories in the United States chosen by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to participate in its new program, the Conservatory Project.

by Ellen Chang

Shepherd Society Celebrates 25 Years
The Shepherd School of Music was only two years old when a group of people interested in making sure that it prospered began an organizational committee to form a support society for the fledgling school.

by Ellen Chang