Curator Conversations
On Friday mornings—usually once per month—the Chazen hosts Curator Conversations on Facebook Live, wherein our curators offer a behind-the-scenes peek or deep dive into current exhibitions.
June 11, 2021
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December 11, 2020Our Kind of Happy Hour
Every other Wednesday evening, the Chazen hosts Our Kind of Happy Hour on Facebook Live. Guests include local artists and community members involved in the arts.
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October 24, 2020Crossings: Remembrance and Celebration
In conjunction with the Community Altar Project, the Chazen is hosting a window installation called Crossings: Remembrance and Celebration, on view in both the bridge gallery and the second-floor windows facing East Campus Mall.
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June 4, 2020From the Modern to the Contemporary
What is the story of modern sculpture? Art doesn’t always respond the way we expect it to. It is not always thematic. There are outliers. Chazen Docent Brian King deconstructs sculpture using works of art from the Chazen's permanent collection.
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April 13, 2020
The Art of Easter
As I write it is Good Friday in the Christian calendar, the day of Christ’s arrest and death on the cross. It is a day […]
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April 1, 2020
Imagining the Post-COVID-19 World
Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen Museum of Art, recently asked all museum staff to think about what it will mean to be a museum […]
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March 20, 2020
Art Now
Art is important right now for the same reasons that art has often been important when we aren’t in moments of crisis. Art has always […]
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August 17, 2019Sirani Conservation in Italy Reveals Clever Cut and Paste
Elisabetta Sirani’s allegorical portrait Signora Ortensia Leoni Cordini as St. Dorothy (1661) has undergone some significant physical changes since its creation in the mid-seventeenth century. […]