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  • Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?
    February 10, 2017 - April 17, 2017
    Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery
    This first full-career retrospective highlights the groundbreaking work of Rosalyn Drexler (American, b. 1926), celebrating her unique contributions to the history of Pop art and her long and multifaceted...   more
  • Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
    September 9, 2016 - January 15, 2017
    Entire Museum
    The largest selection of the Kemper Art Museum’s permanent collection ever shown, Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display celebrates the Museum’s first ten years in its Fumihiko Maki-designed...   more
  • Battle of Ideal vs. Real: The Figure in Nineteenth-Century Art
    May 6, 2016 - July 31, 2016
    Teaching Gallery
    Throughout the history of Western art, the human body has been a locus of artistic innovation. During the transformative period of the nineteenth century, artists experimented with alternative ways of...   more
  • 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
    May 6, 2016 - July 24, 2016
    Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery
    This exhibition features thesis projects by the twenty students in the graduating class of Washington University’s Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The 2016 MFA...   more
  • Julian Rosefeldt: American Night
    March 4, 2016 - August 7, 2016
    Garen Gallery
    German artist Julian Rosefeldt’s multichannel film installation, American Night (2009), is a satirical and engaging critique of the mythology of the American West as disseminated through the Western film genre...   more
  • Abodes of Plenty: American Art of the Inhabited Landscape
    January 29, 2016 - April 24, 2016
    Teaching Gallery
    When artists sought to build a market for landscape painting in the nineteenth-century United States, they encountered a major difficulty: the American landscape lacked the grand castles and ruins that had...   more
  • To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare
    January 29, 2016 - April 24, 2016
    Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery
    We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the technology of surveillance and remote engagement is changing the way we live and understand the world. Over the past decade, the United...   more
  • The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill
    November 13, 2015 - February 14, 2016
    Garen Gallery
    The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill offers a unique opportunity to view paintings rarely seen in North America by the British statesman Winston Churchill (1874–1965), one of the most renowned—and many say...   more
  • World War I: War of Images, Images of War
    September 11, 2015 - January 4, 2016
    Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery
    More than just a military conflict, World War I was a war of culture waged by European nations to determine who would lead Europe into the twentieth century and guide civilization in the face of modernity. It...   more
  • Relationships and Representation: Perspectives on Social Justice Work
    September 11, 2015 - January 4, 2016
    Teaching Gallery
    Relationships and Representation: Perspectives on Social Justice Work brings together a selection of artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection by Christian Jankowski, Rashid Johnson, Sharon Lockhart,...   more