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  • Inside the Palace of Fine Arts: Cosmopolitanism at the 1904 World’s Fair
    May 9, 2014 - August 3, 2014
    Teaching Gallery
    As part of STL250, a regionwide celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis, Inside the Palace of Fine Arts: Cosmopolitanism at the 1904 World’s Fair gathers together a selection of...   more
  • Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art
    May 9, 2014 - August 24, 2014
    Garen Gallery
    A lampshade unfurled and dangling from the ceiling, a palimpsest of posters ripped and torn, a map eaten away by rain—spanning half a century, the artworks in this exhibition explore aesthetic engagement with...   more
  • 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition
    May 9, 2014 - August 3, 2014
    Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery
    This exhibition will feature thesis projects by 26 Master of Fine Arts students in Washington University’s Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The 2014 MFA...   more
  • In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Installations
    January 31, 2014 - April 20, 2014
    Ebsworth Gallery
    The history of the 20th and early 21st centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic...   more
  • On the Thresholds of Space-Making: Shinohara Kazuo and His Legacy
    January 31, 2014 - April 20, 2014
    Garen Gallery
    On the Thresholds of Space-Making surveys the work of Shinohara Kazuo (1925–2006), one of Japan’s most influential architects of the postwar generation. A mathematician turned architect, Shinohara achieved...   more
  • Wanting Women: Expressions of Desire and Difference in Images of Women from the 15th Century to Today
    January 31, 2014 - April 14, 2014
    Teaching Gallery
    Mythic, idealized, religious, sexualized, romantic, misogynist, even feminist—images of women are inevitably laden with the freight of cultural and visual conventions surrounding the feminine, some as ancient...   more
  • Red
    September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014
    Teaching Gallery
    If one says "Red" (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. ...   more
  • Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks
    September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014
    Ebsworth Gallery
    Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks is the first major solo museum exhibition to survey the career of this Chicago-born, New York-based artist. Using photography, painting, sculpture, and video, Johnson...   more
  • American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century
    September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014
    Garen Gallery
    American Places explores the breadth of practices and responses to place in significant nineteenth-century American landscape painting in the Kemper Art Museum and St. Louis area collections. From New England...   more
  • Ugly: An Alternative Look at Western Art
    June 5, 2013 - August 4, 2013
    Teaching Gallery
    For many people, the history of Western art exists as an imagined litany of beautiful artworks, a chronology of idealized figures and finished objects. Featuring a selection of paintings, prints, photographs,...   more