Kemper Art Museum to unveil new galleries Feb. 7
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will unveil a suite of five new galleries Feb. 7, during the opening reception for its spring exhibitions.
Patti Smith to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize
Singer. Writer. Performer. Visual artist. Over the course of her 45-year career, Patti Smith has established herself as one of the most prolific and influential artists of her generation. In fall 2020, Smith will receive the International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis.
Sam Fox School receives NEA grant
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has received a $40,000 grant from the Art Works program of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Colten, Tran win RAC Artist Fellowships
Photographer Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Paul Tran, a senior poetry fellow in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, both at Washington University in St. Louis, have won 2019 Artist Fellowships from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.
Sam Fox School launches spring lecture series
Artist Michael Joo, architect Lola Sheppard and designer Rob Giampietro are among the international array of cutting-edge visual thinkers who will visit St. Louis as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Public Lecture Series. In all, the series, which begins Feb. 3, will feature 16 presentations by renowned artists, architects, curators and designers.
Topics of Conversation
A novel
Miranda Popkey, MFA ’18, creates a book of important conversations that an unnamed narrator has with other women over two decades.
Staging Frontiers
The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina & Uruguay
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century bestsellers. But when these stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life. In this engaging book, William Acree delivers a deep history of Latin American popular entertainment that culminates in […]
Levy named 2019-20 Freund Teaching Fellow
Dana Levy, an internationally renowned artist whose work frequently explores tensions between the man-made and natural worlds, has been appointed the 2019-20 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. The fellowship, jointly sponsored by the Saint Louis Art Museum and the university’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, is designed to promote the creation and exhibition of contemporary art as well as the teaching of contemporary art principles.
Events: ‘Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art’
All events begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Monday, February 24 Lecture, Reinhard Bek Conservator, Bek & Frohnert LLC “Unstable Futures: Conserving the Immaterial, 1960–Present” Thursday, March 5 Music at the Kemper: Darmstadt School Monday, March 23 Lecture, Natilee Harren Assistant professor of contemporary art history and critical studies, University of Houston “The Artwork in […]
About Daniel Spoerri
Artist, curator, poet, dancer and publisher Daniel Spoerri was born in 1930 in Galati, Romania. In 1941, after Romania allied itself with the Axis Powers, his father was arrested and later murdered in a Nazi death camp. In 1942, Spoerri’s mother fled with Daniel and his five siblings to her native Switzerland, resettling with an […]
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