Exclusive member preview for Resource & Ruin exhibition
Chazen members who have supported the museum at the Partner level and above are invited to exclusive member previews of upcoming exhibitions. Two member previews […]
November 1, 2022
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October 19, 2022American Art: Martyl Schweig Langsdorf paints a secret snowy city
Since we are already experiencing snow in Madison, here is a snowy painting from the Chazen collection. Martyl Schweig Langsdorf painted this modernist scene of […]
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October 13, 2022American Art: Charles Sprague Pearce’s ‘The Shawl’
Happy birthday to Charles Sprague Pearce, who was born on this day in 1851. Pearce is the artist of “The Shawl,” one of my favorite […]
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October 12, 2022Elvehjem Building Renovations to Start in 2023
MADISON, Wisc., Oct. 12, 2022 — Visitors to the Chazen Museum of Art may have noticed more than the usual movement of artwork recently, as […]
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October 6, 2022Chazen Auditorium now equipped with T-coil hearing loop
The Chazen Museum of Art has installed new assistive-listening technology in its auditorium that will bring clearer sound to visitors who use hearing aids or […]
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October 6, 2022The Chazen Museum of Art explores nature’s beauty and an environment in crisis in exhibition opening Dec. 19
Resource & Ruin tells a national story of an environment in crisis through the lens of the Midwest’s natural surroundings MADISON, Wis. – Americans have […]
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October 6, 2022American Art: Portrait of Sir Thomas Littledale
Lately, I have been spending a lot of time working on the upcoming re:mancipation exhibition, which opens in February. When you visit the exhibition, you […]
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September 29, 2022Village of Olinda: Focus on nature glosses over slavery’s reality
One of the paintings that interests me most in the Chazen collection is Village of Olinda, Brazil by the Dutch artist Frans Jansz. Post. In […]
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September 28, 2022
re:mancipation Symposium Nov. 3–4, 2022
Register for symposium events or bookmark the live stream: Thursday, Nov. 3 • 5:30–6:30 p.m. Chazen Auditorium DisOrientation. Artist Sanford Biggers, MASK Consortium, and Wildcat […]
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September 15, 2022All-American Schreiner was model for Curry’s Forward Pass
It’s football season! John Steuart Curry, UW-Madison’s first artist-in-residence, painted this composition, originally titled Forward Pass, for Abbott Laboratories to use as a magazine cover […]