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Lunch Break
Sharon Lockhart at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 5 to April 19, 2010
Nov. 17,
2009 --
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| Sharon Lockhart, Larry Conklin, Welder, 2008. |
Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Sharon Lockhart creates films and photographs that are at once rigorously formal and deeply humanistic, meticulously observing the details of everyday life while also probing the limits and intersections between the two mediums. As much as Lockhart's photographs reveal cinematic qualities of staging and casting, so too do her films frequently engage a static camera and angles that recall photographic practices. Next sprint the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, a one-person exhibition showcasing the artist's most recent series.
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"Chance Encounters"
Eminent critic Yve-Alain Bois to speak on John Cage, François Morellet and Ellsworth Kelly Nov. 9
Oct. 29,
2009 --
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| Yve-Alain Bois |
Critic and curator Yve-Alain Bois, a widely recognized expert on 20th-century European and American art, will present a lecture titled "Chance Encounters: John Cage, François Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. The talk — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum through Jan. 4 — is cosponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' fall Public Lecture Series and the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.
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"Playing with Chance"
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to explore Duchamp, chess and roulette Oct. 14
Oct. 5,
2009 --
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| Marcel Duchamp |
Marcel Duchamp was among the most influential artists of the 20th century. He was also a dedicated chess player who saw strong correlations between his art and the game. On Oct. 14 the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will present "Playing with Chance: Duchamp, Chess and Roulette," a gallery talk and exhibition match combining the ultimate game of strategy with the ultimate game of chance.
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Chance Aesthetics Concert
Performance to feature avant-garde music Oct. 7
Sept. 29,
2009 --
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| John Cage |
Since the early 20th century avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department, both in Arts & Sciences, along with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the use of chance in modern and contemporary music. The performance — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, now on view at the Kemper Art Museum — is free and open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the 560 Music Center's E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall.
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A tale of two artists
A Challenge to Democracy explores legacy of Japanese internment camps
Sept. 17,
2009 --
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| Ansel Adams, Smiling Girl (Oriental Type), 1943 |
In the 1930s, the photographer Ansel Adams struck up a friendship with California painter Chiura Obata. Yet the arrival of World War II would set these two celebrated artists on radically divergent paths — paths that would, in very different ways, lead both to the now-infamous "war relocation centers" at which the U.S. government forcibly interred approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Next month their sons, Michael Adams and Gyo Obata, will explore the impact of internment on their respective families in a public dialog at Washington University.
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Visionary architecture
Metabolic City at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010
Aug. 21,
2009 --
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| Warren Chalk and David Greene, *Electronic Tomato — Collage," 1969. |
Amidst the cultural and political ferment of the 1960s, avant-garde artists and architects began embracing biological and scientific models as well as the potentials of emerging technologies to explore radical new directions in urban design, developing projects that were at once fanciful, complex and conceptually serious. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Metabolic City, an exhibition surveying work by the British collective Archigram; the Japanese Metabolists (whose members include Fumihiko Maki, architect of the Kemper Art Museum); and the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, an early member of the Situationist International.
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"A Challenge to Democracy"
Fall series to explore past and present of ethnic profiling
Aug. 12,
2009 --
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| Passing Poston: An American Story (2008) |
Ethnic profiling is illegal in the United States, prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause for searches and seizures, and by the Fourteenth Amendment, which calls for equal protection under the law. And yet as the recent arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates demonstrates, the issue remains far from settled. This fall Washington University in St. Louis will present "Ethnic Profiling: A Challenge to Democracy," a semester-long series exploring the history, impact and ethical issues surrounding ethnic profiling through lectures, readings, performances, panel discussions and other events.
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Chance, randomness and probability
Chance Aesthetics at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010
Aug. 5,
2009 --
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| Jean Tinguely, Metamatic No. 9 |
Dripping or flinging paint; flipping coins to compose musical scores; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition — since the early 20th century avant-garde artists have used these processes and many others to explore the creative possibilities of chance and its attendant release of authorial intent. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Chance Aesthetics, a major loan exhibition investigating the use of chance as a key compositional principle in modern art.
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Warhol Foundation Grant
Kemper Art Museum wins $50,000 grant for Sharon Lockhart—Lunch Break
July 30,
2009 --
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| Sharon Lockhart, still from LUNCH BREAK (Assembly Hall, Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine), 2008. |
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis has received a $50,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., to support the exhibition Sharon Lockhart—Lunch Break. Organized by Sabine Eckmann, Ph.D., the museum's director and chief curator, the exhibition will open Feb. 10, 2010, and remain on view through April 19.
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Chance, play, and nature
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announces 2009-10 schedule
June 30,
2009 --
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| Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance V, 1951. |
In an unstable world chance events can seem to threaten our claims to self-determination. Yet in the early 20th century avant-garde artists embraced chance as a primary compositional principle. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Chance Aesthetics, a major loan exhibition examining the use of chance in modern art. The exhibition is the first of four major shows slated for the 2009-10 academic year.
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