The Silent Theater will perform an old folk tale, Donkey Skin	He Is Out!, classic clowning traditions and modern theatre clowning duo, KiSaCo, welcome a baby into the world

Snow White, with minimal props and set, three exceptional actors use an inspired mix of mime, physical theatre and original songs to tell this story	Stoneface, a show without words combines music, poetry, and sight-gags into a theatrical experience

Afro-Cuban All Stars, Grammy-nominated big band explores Cuba's musical heritage	John O'Conor, pianist, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Grammy-nominated jazz saxman	River North Chicago Dance Company

The Tallis Scholars, classical and choral music

Voice of the Dragon: Once Upon a Time in Chinese America, multicultural work fusing music, theater, ballet, and pyrotechnical Chinese martial arts

The Klezmatics, arrangements and compositions combine Jewish identity and mysticism with contemporary zeitgeist

An interactive performance by the Vagabond Acting Troupe in coordination with the Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans exhibit. Above, an Etruscan Priestess (Kate Griesermer), a Roman Senator (Leonard Kelly), the goddess Athena (Rose Evans) and a slave from all three worlds (Jason Stockdale).

Exhibits

Maya Brym untitled oil on canvas MFA Preview Thesis show	Erica Baklawski untitled acrylic on panel Fox Family Exhibition

Graduation, by Charles Cooper	Kitchen Gods at Work, John H. Stone

Untitled, Salih Memecan, c.1980.

Justine Kurland

Wood Song, 2002 Toned gelatin silver print Courtesy of the artist and Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York

Adam Ames: Without Warning (Flying Vaginas Are Trying to Eat Me) Without Warning, (video still) Courtesy of the Adam Ames

Edna Andrade: Optical Paintings, 1963-1986

Temple, 1986 Acrylic on canvas Collection of Fred and Kathryn Giampietro

Photo: James B. Pritchard, 1958.
James B. Pritchard excavated the site of Gibeon in modern-day Jordan, a site mentioned a number of times in the Bible. Pictured here is the spectacular pool of Gibeon.

Photo: George F. Dales, 1969.
George F. Dales surveyed the Seistan region (pictured above) of southwestern Afghanistan in search of evidence of contact between the Indus and Mesopotamian civilizations.

Photo by John Henry Haynes, 1899.
Workers carry away baskets full of dirt in a stark, surreal landscape at Nippur in Iraq, 1899.

Exhibit includes (above) a winter view of the Swan Pond at the Arboretum and other works by artist Linda Berger, a Arboretum staff member.

Photo by Steve McCurry, Haunted Eyes Tell of a Young Afghan Refugee's Fears, Baluchistan, Pakistan, 1985, is part of the exhibit South Southeast, at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

"Rebuilding the city of Herat after years of Soviet
bombing" Herat, Afghanistan. 1993

"Mazar-I-Sharif Mosque" Afghanistan. 1991

Kimowan McLain's Without Ground creates a narrative of Native American diaspora. Using manipulated photo images transferred directly to the wall, Without Ground marches like film imagery in a line of figures stretching the length of the ICA's Ramp Corridor.

Exhibit provides an in-depth photographic view of the Asian people and their unique, close connection with plants.

William Rush, model of the sphenoid bone, 1808. Photo by Candace diCarlo.

Loculus Cover (burial niche) funerary relief of man and servants, limestone,2nd century A.D., Palmyra, Syria. The sculpted coversthat seal the loculi in Palmyra's Valley of the Dead, provides considerable information about Palmyrene burial customs, religion and local life. This cover depicts a youth reclining with a vase in his left hand. Two males in smaller scale, perhaps slaves, stand by, holding amphora and a cup.
	Antefix with Satyr head, terra cotta, 4th century B.C., Cerveteri, Italy. One of a set of antefixes with backdrops in the shape of shells, from a large temple in the countryside of Caere. They were used along the edge of roofs. The satyrs have red flesh that shows they are males.
Seated God (Dionysus) with a Lion, marble, Roman Imperial period with restorations in Italy in the early 17th century or before, Rome, Italy. UPM purchased this statue from a dealer in 1911 and it can be dated back to 1622.

  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 26, March 25, 2003