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UA PROFESSOR’S DOCUMENTARY ECLIPSE AWE
AIRS ON HBO Chris Richards photos
n 1969, Lisanne Skyler’s parents bought an Andy he University of Arizona’s Flandrau Science Center and
IWarhol “Brillo Box (3¢ Off)” sculpture for $1,000. TPlanetarium hosted a solar eclipse viewing event on Aug. 21.
Exact replicas of a shipping carton for Brillo soap Shipherd Reed, Flandrau’s associate director of communications
pads, Warhol’s Brillo Boxes at first were dismissed and multimedia production, says that in Tucson the moon was seen
by the art world. to cover 60 percent of the face of the sun.
But 40 years later, the piece sold for more than Although eclipses in general are not rare, Reed says that it is
$3 million at a record-breaking Christie’s auction. rare for the path of totality to cross the United States and for even
Blending a humorous family narrative with a partial eclipse of this magnitude to be visible from Tucson. The
pop-art history, the documentary “Brillo Box next total solar eclipse that will be visible in the continental United
(3¢ Off)” — written, directed and produced by States will occur in 2024.
Skyler, a film director and associate professor at
the University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film
and Television — follows the work as it makes its
way from a New York family’s living room to the
contemporary global art market.
An official selection of the 54th New York Film
Festival, the 40-minute documentary — which
involved more than 40 alumni and students —
debuted on HBO in August.

WORLD LITERATURE DEGREE
TO FOCUS ON TRADITIONS
FROM AROUND GLOBE
by Liza Pluto

he University of Arizona is launching a new
Tdegree in world literature, introducing students
to various traditions of storytelling, narrative and
expression from across the world.
Combined with an intensive foreign language
study, the degree program will provide in-depth
insight into the literatures of those languages.
As part of the College of Humanities’ new
Department of Public and Applied Humanities,
the world literature bachelor’s degree will deliver
multilingual education and an understanding of
disparate cultures.

University Communications News
Read online: uanews.arizona.edu

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