Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Philanthropist Eli Broad, named one of the top art collectors in the world by ArtNews and Art and Antiques magazines, will speak on “Thirty Years of Collecting” at 5 p.m. March 8 at the Gallery of Art. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is being held in conjunction with American Art […]

Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art is the first major museum-level exhibition dedicated to the topic.

The new academic and administrative unit will bring together nationally ranked programs in art and architecture and the Kemper Art Museum.

Richard J. Smith, the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, will serve as its chair.

Effective immediately, he will serve as special assistant to the current dean, Cynthia Weese; she’ll step down June 30 and return to private practice.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum”Inside Out Loud”This spring, more than 30 campus and community partners will join the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis to present close to 70 events relating to women’s health. Events — which range from exhibitions, concerts and theatrical performances to lectures, seminars and health screenings — are held in conjunction with the museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major exhibition dedicated to the topic, which will be on view Jan. 21 to April 24.

Courtesy photoDozens of internationally renowned artists will be featured at Island Press’ second-annual holiday sale Dec. 19 in Bixby Hall.

Hannah Wilke, “Intra-Venus #4, February 19, 1992,” (1992-93)Women’s bodies — nude, adorned, eroticized, abstracted — figure prominently in the history of art. Yet the art of women’s health is shockingly new. In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major museum-level exhibition dedicated to the topic. The show tracks the emergence of women’s health in American art from the early 1980s to the present, and includes approximately 50 artworks in a variety of traditional and cutting-edge media by more than 30 internationally known artists and artists’ groups.

One of the world’s most influential figures in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind will read from his new book Dec. 6 in Graham Chapel.

The professor emeritus in the School of Architecture’s book is titled Planning and Social Science: A Humanistic Approach.