Explore the transformation of the arts community in Paris during and shortly after World War I with Professor Aida Yuen Wong. During this period, Montparnasse, with its many cafés and bohemian community on the Left Bank, began to replace the more touristic Montmartre as the central art district, and many international artists settled there. We will look at the lives of two sojourners, Foujita Tsuguharu and Saeki Yūzo. While Foujita gained fame as a member of L'École de Paris, Saeki died largely unknown in a mental hospital. Their different paths showed the diversity of experiences and what life was like for modern artists active in the French capital during the Roaring Twenties.

All alumni, parents, friends, Brandeis National Committee (BNC) and BOLLI members are invited to join sessions online. Sponsored by the Arts Alumni Network and the Brandeis Alumni Association.

Brandeis' legendary string quartet in residence (Andrea Segar & Julia Glenn, violins; Mark Berger, viola; Joshua Gordon, cello) perform Fanny Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat major; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 428; and the world premiere the Lydian String Quartet Commission prizewinner Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's Duende.

Rescheduled from March 2023. Tickets: $20/$15/$5 and free with Brandeis Student ID. Sponsored by the Department of Music.

Join Showbiz@Deis for an entertaining, inspiring, and informative virtual evening with Debra Zane, P’23 and Sharon Klein ’84, two of Hollywood’s top casting directors, as they share insight and wisdom about breaking in and rising up as an actor in film and television. Sponsored by the Brandeis Alumni Arts Network and Brandeis Alumni in Film and Television.

The Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (BOLLI), a year-round learning community of intellectually curious adults, is offering two special lecture series this summer. This $85 trial offer (for new members only) is an opportunity to sample BOLLI by enjoying five online sessions of “American History on Broadway,” with musicologist Gil Harel (July 10-14), or “Shakespeare's King Lear” with Billy Flesch, professor of English at Brandeis (August 14-18).

If you have questions or would like assistance registering, please contact Dom Restivo at [email protected] or 781-736-2992.

Alison Judd '04, PB'05, uses color, mark-making, and form to capture the gestures of everyday moments — tranquil, disruptive, intimate, or routine — with her family. The abstraction of objects and figurative elements represents the changeable and fragmentary aspects of memory, in which these moments inevitably become a blur.

This pre-launch exhibition of art by the Brandeis Alumni Art Gallery, to be launched in the fall of 2023, is made possible by support from the Brandeis Alumni Association, the Office of the President, and the Division of Creative Arts. "Alison Judd | be-tween" will be on view in the Wien Faculty Center from April 21-September 30, 2023. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.