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2023

Adam Pendleton: To Divide By opens September 22, 2023 >>

Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava >>

African Modernism in America >>

Dana Ostrander Appointed Assistant Curator of Modern Art >>

Kemper Art Museum Awarded NEH Conservation Grant >>

Sam Fox School Spring Public Lecture Series begins Jan. 19 >>

2022

Kemper Art Museum Acquires Ai Weiwei’s Illumination >>

Video: Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings >>

Sam Fox School Fall 2022 Public Lecture series features Katharina Grosse
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Museum presents Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, first career survey of artist’s works on canvas
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Lehman wins IDEA accessibility award

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2021

Nicole Miller: A Sound, a Signal, the Circus at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

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Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse

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Sheldon Scott's Portrait, number 1 man at Kemper Art Museum

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Related programming: The Outwin: American Portraiture Today

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The Outwin: American Portraiture Today

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Kemper Art Museum wins $75,000 grant from Andy Warhol Foundation

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum reopens to the public June 23

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Q&A with Christine Sun Kim

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2020

The Autonomous Future of Mobility

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Truths and Reckonings

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Kemper Art Museum to unveil new galleries Feb. 7

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2019

About Daniel Spoerri

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Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art

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Video: Ai Weiwei: Bare Life

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Kemper Art Museum to Present Ai Weiwei: Bare Life in Its Renovated and Expanded Building, September 28, 2019

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Washington University in St. Louis to Unveil New Facilities for Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in Fall 2019

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2018

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to close May 22 for expansion

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Transformative Visions: Washington University's East End, Then and Now

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Postwar Prints and Mulitples: Investigating the Collection, Island Press: Recent Prints, and The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio

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2017

Pledges of Allegiance

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Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection

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Kader Attia: Reason's Oxymorons

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WashU Experts: Arts cuts could prove "dire...irreversible"

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Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha

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Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?

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2016

Beauty, danger and cake

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to expand

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Sam Fox School, Kemper Art Museum celebrate 10th anniversaries

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Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display opens Sept. 9

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Red Mars and the fictional artist

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Mark Ryan joins Kemper Art Museum

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Shattering Western mythology

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Art through the lens of a drone

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2015

VIDEO: The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill

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Unruh joins Kemper Art Museum

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The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill on display at Kemper Nov. 13 to Feb. 14, 2016

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Kemper Art Museum acquires Marcel Duchamp Boîte-en-valise

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Kemper Art Museum announces fall events

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Exhibit Rotation 2: Contemporary Art from the Peter Norton Gift opens Sept. 11 at Kemper

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World War I: War of Images, Images of War

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Kemper Art Museum displays new acquisitions

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Kemper Art Museum receives major gift of contemporary art

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2014

From Picasso to Fontana—Collecting Modern and Postwar Art in the Eisendrath Years, 1960-1968

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Sam Durant: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.

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Three Egyptian mummies receive CT scans

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Encountering the City: The Urban Experience in Contemporary Art

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Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association

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Kemper Art Museum launches fall season Sept. 12

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum acquires works by Ernst Wilhelm Nay

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Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art

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On the Thresholds of Space-Making: Shinohara Kazuo and His Legacy through April 20

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In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Installations

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2013

Kemper Art Museum launches 2013-14 season

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Kemper Art Museum receives federal IMLS grant to support conservation survey

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Kemper Art Museum announces new public hours beginning Aug. 21

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Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks

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Celebrate Art Museum Day May 18

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Wǒmen (我们): Contemporary Chinese Art on display

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Contemporary German Art: Selections From the Permanent Collection

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Face and Figure in European Art, 1928-1945

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Kemper Braque Film Challenge Feb. 15-18

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Interview with Karen Butler

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2012

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945, at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

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Community Day at Kemper Art Museum Oct. 20

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Q&A: Leslie Markle

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Media advisory: Make a House Intelligent

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Design with the Other 90%: CITIES Sept. 14

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Contemporary Night Out Aug. 2

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Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process Sept. 14 to Jan. 7, 2013

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2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition opens at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 4

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Frederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s at Kemper Art Museum May 4

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Fringe Figure Film Series March 27, 28 and 29

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Community Day at Kemper Art Museum March 31

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Balázs Kicsiny: Killing Time opens at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Jan. 27

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2011

John Stezaker at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Jan. 27 to April 23

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Cities of the Future Film Series Dec. 6, 7 and 8

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Community Day at Kemper Art Museum

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Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art From Germany opens Sept. 9

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Tomás Saraceno: Cloud-Specific

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announces 2011–12 exhibition schedule

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Exit Through the Gift Shop July 18

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Dr. Strangelove June 17

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Lunch & Learn returns to Kemper Art Museum

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Summer exhibitions open at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 6

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Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

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Pernikoff Brothers to launch Kemper Presents

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Luis Camnitzer: Forewords and Last Words

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Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking

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Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton

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2010

Contemporary Brazilian Film Festival

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Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other

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Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate: Postwar Abstraction in the Permanent Collection at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Aug. 20 to Sept. 20

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Allison Smith: Needle Work at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 5 to April 19, 2010

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2009

Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum February 5 to April 19, 2010

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Metabolic City at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

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Chance Aesthetics at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

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Kemper Art Museum wins $50,000 grant from Andy Warhol Foundation

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announces 2009-10 schedule

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Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announce new residency

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Rirkrit Tiravanija: Chew the Fat at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 8 to July 27

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to open spring 2009 concert series Feb. 27

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2008

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum appoints new curator

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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

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Some Like it Cool film series Dec. 9-11

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Terry Smith to discuss contemporary art and global change at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Oct. 13

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Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to highlight midcentury modernism in 2008-09

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The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 2 to July 21

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2007

On the Margins exploring War and Disaster at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 8 to April 21

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Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 8 to Apr. 21

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Beauty and the Blonde at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Nov. 16 to Jan. 28

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Window | Interface at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Aug. 31 to Nov. 5

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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

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2006

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to open inaugural exhibitions Oct. 25

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall to be Dedicated October 25

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