A Virtual Docent’s Tour with Diane Mertens
We’ve asked our docents to take us on “virtual docent’s tours,” showing us digitally some of their favorite works. Diane Mertens was a high school […]
April 3, 2020
News and Articles
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April 2, 2020Dear Friends: A Message From the Director
Dear Friends, I hope you are all healthy and safe during this difficult time. As many of you can relate, it feels as if our […]
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March 26, 2020A Virtual Docent’s Tour with Sandra Loman
Sandra Loman taught history courses at Madison College for over 30 years and used both art and architecture extensively in her curriculum. She’s been a docent since 2004. We asked her a few questions about some favorites at the Chazen.
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February 17, 2020Chazen Museum of Art and UW–Madison Libraries Awarded Mellon Grant
Madison, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the “Coordinating Cultural Heritage […]
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January 26, 2020
Chazen Museum of Art Still Growing and Changing at 50
“The Chazen Museum of Art has long showcased art by UW-Madison faculty. And this year, in celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, the faculty show […]
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November 20, 2019
The State of the Museum
Director Amy Gilman delivers first State of the Museum address. If you missed this first-ever event (or if you want to hear it again) you […]
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October 10, 2019Print Room: All Access
Hosted by James R. Wehn, PhD, Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper, Print Room: All Access takes place on the third Friday evening of the month.
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September 30, 2019Alcauskas Named Chief Curator
Director Amy Gilman welcomes academic and large-collection experience to her expanding curatorial team with the addition of Katherine Alcauskas.
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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. […]
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July 23, 2019
Chazen Museum of Art Expands Open Hours
Wisconsin museum is most-open museum among more than 200 museums in the U.S., Canada and Mexico