On Wednesday, November 15th, Charlie Derby, a prolific collector of African artwork from nearby Northampton, Mass., visited the University of Massachusetts Amherst to discuss his beloved artwork...

This year’s Troy Lecturer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, recently received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. 

On December 1 through 2, the University Dancers presented Cadáver Exquisito, an evening of surrealist dance theater directed by faculty members Thomas Vacanti and Leslie Frye Maietta. Staged in the round at the Totman Performance Lab, the production was inspired by the lives and historically experimental writing of Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda.

Through January 1, 2018 the University Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying a virtual exhibition, created in collaboration with students from English 300: “Dis/ability and Literature.”

This week marks the 5-year anniversary of the the UMass Amherst’s department of theater’s New Play Lab; a showcase that selects new works to be workshopped with students and faculty to assist...