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The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 2 to July 21
Exhibition to explore works and legacy of influential 19th-century movement
April 2, 2008 -- 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 movements such as Impressionism.
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On the Margins exploring War and Disaster at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 8 to April 21
Exhibition, curated by printmaker Carmon Colangelo, explores influence of war and disaster in contemporary art
Jan. 14, 2008 -- War and disaster have profoundly shaped the opening years of the 21st century. In the United States and abroad, acts of violence and terrorism as well as natural catastrophes have resulted in large-scale destruction and displacement affecting the lives of millions.
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Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 8 to Apr. 21
First solo museum exhibition for acclaimed Los Angeles Painter
Dec. 6, 2007 -- 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.
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Beauty and the Blonde at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Nov. 16 to Jan. 28
First museum exhibition to investigate the blonde in contemporary art
Sept. 26, 2007 -- The blonde has been an iconic and highly influential ideal of feminine beauty in American culture since the mid-20th century. Yet beginning with American Pop Art in the early 1960s, the blonde has also become a touchstone for artistic representation and critical inquiry.
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Window | Interface at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Aug. 31 to Nov. 5
New media artworks explore connections between the visual and the physical
July 23, 2007 -- Windows shape and frame, both literally and figuratively, the ways we see the world around us. Interfaces represent the points of contact between different systems, spaces and entities -- for example, the screen, the mouse or the keyboard that connects the computer with the human user.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to present Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany Feb. 9 to April 29
First museum exhibition to showcase a new generation of international artists based in Germany
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Germany has reemerged as a potent intellectual and creative center within the international art world. In February 2007, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the first thematic museum exhibition to examine how contemporary artists have dealt -- both directly and indirectly -- with the social, economic and political ramifications of German unification.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to open inaugural exhibitions Oct. 25
Internationally renowned art collection gets first permanent exhibition galleries in 100 years; opening installation to focus on Subjectivity and Self
Over the last 125 years, Washington University has built one of the nation's finest university art collections by focusing on the acquisition and display of contemporary work. On Oct. 25, the university will dedicate its new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, a dramatic, light-filled structure designed to showcase the renowned permanent collection as well as a vibrant program of temporary exhibitions.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall to be Dedicated October 25
In 1960 a young Japanese architecture professor named Fumihiko Maki completed his first-ever commission -- Steinberg Hall -- while teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. For years that building, which showcased the university's renowned art collection, represented Maki's only built work in the United States.
Four decades later, Maki is among the world's premier architects, a Pritzker Prize-winner known for creating monumental spaces that fuse Eastern and Western sensibilities. Current projects include both the $330 million United Nations expansion in Manhattan and Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site (scheduled to open in 2008 and 2011, respectively).
Now Maki has returned to Washington University as architect of the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, a dramatic, light-filled structure that will showcase the university's internationally renowned art collection. The 65,000-square-foot, limestone-clad Kemper Art Museum, which more than triples the exhibition space previously available in Steinberg Hall, is ideally suited to the display of large-scale and new-media work.
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