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Birth of Cool:
California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 19, 2008, to Jan. 5, 2009
July 9,
2008 --
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| Lorser Feitelson, Dichotomic Organization |
From painting and architecture to music, film, furniture and the graphic arts, 1950s Los Angeles was an epicenter of American modernism. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, a sprawling multimedia exhibition that investigates how the sleek West Coast aesthetic — at once playful and poised, laid-back and sharply articulated — emerged as cultural shorthand for crisp sophistication.
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Shaping the Future
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to highlight midcentury modernism in 2008-09
June 17,
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| Karl Benjamin, Black Pillars, 1957. |
From retail furnishings to international auction houses, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in midcentury modernism, an influential design aesthetic that flourished between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. During the 2008-09 academic year the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will host two major exhibitions exploring both the breadth and the cultural impact of midcentury modernism, through such mediums as painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, film, music and the graphic arts.
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Harriet Hosmer
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to showcase pioneering sculptor May 2 to July 21
April 23,
2008 --
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| Harriet Hosmer, Oenone (1854-55) |
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Neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) was one of the most successful women artists of her day, described by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning as "a perfectly emancipated female." She was also the first woman to study anatomy at what would become the Washington University School of Medicine and produced many of her most significant works — such as the bronze statue of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park — for St. Louis patrons. This summer the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating Hosmer's life and work with a special Teaching Gallery exhibition, on view May 2 to July 21.
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The Barbizon School
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to explore 19th-century landscape painting May 2 to July 21
April 2,
2008 --
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| Jules Dupré, The River (c.1850) |
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Between 1830 and 1880 a loosely associated group of landscape painters lived and worked in the small farming village of Barbizon, France. Rejecting the traditional artistic conventions of academic landscape painting, such as the Ideal, the Pastoral, and the Heroic, they strived instead to depict an unmediated version of nature — an approach that would prove central to later avant-garde movements such as Impressionism. In May the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present *The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape,* an exhibition of close to 40 works by leading Barbizon figures and by later French and American artists who were influenced by the school.
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Kemper Presents
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to host local concerts throughout spring
Feb. 7,
2008 --
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| Tonya Gilmore |
From Scott Joplin and Chuck Berry to Tina Turner, Nelly and Wilco, St. Louis has long boasted a rich and widely influential musical scene. This spring the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will launch a new concert series designed to highlight the talents and diversity of contemporary St. Louis musicians. The free Friday evening concerts — titled Kemper Presents — will feature close to a dozen local artists working in a variety of genres, from ambient jazz and electronica to experimental rock and American roots music.
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Carnegie International
Curator Douglas Fogle to speak at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 15
Jan. 30,
2008 --
Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art for the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, will discuss his curatorial experiences and the practice of contemporary painting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Fogle is currently organizing the 55th Carnegie International, which will open in Pittsburgh May 2008 and remain on view through January 2009.
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Art talks
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to present series of discussions Feb. 7 to 9
Jan. 28,
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| Willie Doherty, Ghost Story (2007). |
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a series of three artists' talks and discussions on Feb. 7, 8 and 9. All three events come in conjunction with two new exhibitions: On the Margins, which explores the impact of war and disaster on a range of contemporary artists; and Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings, which features more than two dozen large-scale paintings by the acclaimed Los Angeles painter.
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On the Margins
Exhibition at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to explore effects of war and disaster in contemporary art Feb. 8 to April 21
Jan. 14,
2008 --
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| Jane Hammond, detail from Fallen, 2004-ongoing. |
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War and disaster have profoundly shaped the opening years of the 21st century. In the United States and abroad, acts of violence and terrorism have resulted in large-scale destruction and displacement affecting the lives of millions. This spring, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present On the Margins, an exhibition exploring the impact of war and disaster through the work of a diverse range of contemporary artists.
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Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum presents first solo museum show for the acclaimed Los Angeles painter Feb. 8 to April 21
Dec. 6,
2007 --
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| Thaddeus Strode, Absolutes and Nothings |
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Since the late 1980s Los Angeles-based painter Thaddeus Strode has created wild, vibrantly colored mash-ups in which California surf and skateboard culture collide with Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, comic books and other popular motifs, all mixing freely with the artist's own inventions. In February, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present the first major museum exhibition dedicated to Strode's work as part of its Contemporary Projects series.
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Iconic Blonde Film Festival
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to present three classic films Dec. 4 to 6
Nov. 19,
2007 --
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| Andy Warhol, Marilyn 1/10, 1967. |
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The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Iconic Blonde Film Festival Dec. 4 to 6. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, the festival will feature screenings of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Dec, 4), Vertigo (Dec. 5) and Bonnie and Clyde (Dec. 6).
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