Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast.

The Indiana University Art Museum is offering a glimpse into the world of painting conservation this summer. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from now through the end of September, the public is invited to observe the ongoing conservation of two panels from Thomas Hart Benton's famous Indiana murals at the IU Art Museum's painting conservation laboratory.

A $500,000 grant to the Indiana University Art Museum from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help the museum strengthen its academic programs. The grant will be used over the next three and a half years to broaden curricular engagement with the museum's collections.

A $500,000 grant to the Indiana University Art Museum from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help the museum strengthen its academic programs. The grant will be used over the next three and a half years to broaden curricular engagement with the museum's collections.

Where can you find masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte and Jackson Pollock along with decorative and ceremonial art objects from all around the world? The answer has long lain at the heart of the Indiana University Bloomington campus, but now it's also coming to a coffee table near you.

Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament, has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2007. The book was co-authored by Adelheid M. "Heidi" Gealt, director of the Indiana University Art Museum, and co-published by Indiana University Press in association with the museum.

The Indiana University Art Museum building will celebrate its 25th birthday with the power of 500 million candles. On Oct. 26, the switch will be flipped on the 25th Anniversary Light Totem, a dazzling light installation illuminating a 70-foot freestanding tower, a 40-foot-long tube within the atrium, and the building's south exterior wall. Three searchlights will further highlight the building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the IU Art Museum's building and the unveiling of Light Totem, Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will return to Indiana University to present a special lecture.

The Indiana University Art Museum building will celebrate its 25th birthday with the power of 500 million candles. On Oct. 26, the switch will be flipped on the 25th Anniversary Light Totem, a dazzling light installation illuminating a 70-foot freestanding tower, a 40-foot-long tube within the atrium, and the building's south exterior wall. Three searchlights will further highlight the building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei.

In this edition of Lecture Notes, explore the creation of comic books, learn how humans process alcohol and meet Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam.

In the last edition of Lecture Notes for the semester, take part in National Cover the Uninsured Week, explore the photographs of Tijani Sitou and celebrate the 2007 Indiana Law class.

In this edition of Lecture Notes, celebrate the study of Alzheimer's, explore the artwork of Kalidou Sy and find out if you are fit to breed.

In this edition of Lecture Notes, explore the creation of comic books, learn how humans process alcohol and meet Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam.

In this edition of Lecture Notes, explore the creation of comic books, learn how humans process alcohol and meet Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam.

Close out Black History Month with a Union Board lecture and attend the 61st annual IU Business Conference in Indianapolis in this edition of Lecture Notes.

Join the IU Bloomington and IU East campuses in celebrating Black History Month and meet the 2006 Teacher of the Year in this edition of Lecture Notes.

In this edition of Lecture Notes, find events that allow you to look at portraits by Joyce Wilson and war photos by James Nachtwey, confer with 'CSI' consultant Gary Telgenhoff and dedicate new artwork to the IU Art Museum.

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with Naomi Tutu and Lani Guinier, and explore human sexuality through photographs in this edition of Lecture Notes.

This issue of Lecture Notes features speakers on the Bloomington campus discussing a variety of topics, including sexual risk taking, the foundations of physics and the beauty of Roman women.

So you think that dusty old painting in grandma's attic might actually be worth something? You're wondering whether you've stumbled across a hidden gem that will pay your child's way through college -- like that $100,000 Rembrandt etching that was found in a New England barn. Get out the magnifying glass and learn the steps necessary to become a "print detective." In this essay, Nan Brewer, the Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper at the Indiana University Art Museum, tells how casual art connoissuers can develop the basic research tools needed to learn more about prints that they own or hope to acquire.

This edition of "Lecture Notes" features information about lectures and speakers on the Indiana University Bloomington campus from Nov. 6-20, including "Lunch with a Curator," a former chief of the CIA European Division and interesting discoveries from the Stone Age Institute.

A museum director's detective work is restoring a visionary 18th century Venetian artist to his rightful place in the history of art. Indiana University Art Museum Director Adelheid M. (Heidi) Gealt and George Knox, an emeritus professor at the University of Vancouver, have reconstructed the largest-known New Testament cycle produced by a single artist: 313 large, finished drawings in ink and wash by Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), one of the foremost Venetian artists active during the second half of the 18th century.

The artists of the Guilin Chinese Painting Academy, who will stage a historic exhibition at the Indiana University Art Museum from Sept. 30 to Dec. 17, are devoted to carrying on the more than 300-year tradition in China of influential Guilin painting. They're also seeking to give life to a contemporary school that merges traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western art styles that didn't emerge in China until the country opened its doors to outside influences in the 1980s.

Marie Clapot suffers from a degenerative eye disease and, to date, is partially sighted. Her desire to make art more accessible for people with disabilities led her to secure an internship at the Indiana University Art Museum and help design and coordinate a new program at the museum -- to be launched next month -- that will allow visually impaired patrons to touch and feel selected objects from the museum's collection.