New Accessions Highlight: Thin Air
Through portraiture, still life, and landscape, Amsterdam-based artist Hannah van Bart explores the relationship between abstraction and figuration as a subjective one.
February 5, 2021
News and Articles
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January 25, 2021More Hours, More Art in January 2021
The Chazen Museum of Art starts the spring semester with new hours and new art. Beginning January 26, the museum adds evening hours on Thursday […]
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December 11, 2020Our Kind of Happy Hour Archive
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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November 30, 2020Chazen Director Amy Gilman to give online ‘State of the Museum’ address
When: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, 7 p.m. Eastern Time Where: https://www.facebook.com/ChazenArtUW What: Director Amy Gilman will present her annual State of the Museum […]
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November 30, 2020Janine Yorimoto Boldt named Associate Curator of American Art
New role continues the expansion of curatorial team MADISON, Wis. – The Chazen Museum of Art continues to grow its curatorial ranks by adding Janine […]
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November 11, 2020Chazen News: Contemporary African Art Initiative
The Contemporary African Art Initiative (CAAI) is a new multi-year project that seeks to expand the Chazen Museum of Art’s holdings of contemporary African art.
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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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October 22, 2020New Accession Highlight: Travelers at Shichirigahama Beach Pass Enoshima Island as Mount Fuji Appears Above the Distant Shore
Active primarily as a painter in Edo (present-day Tokyo) during the early decades of the nineteenth century, Kitagawa Fujimaro favored scenes featuring two or three figures in outdoor settings.
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October 16, 2020New Accession Highlight: Tatted Up Redhead Holding the Head of My Enemy at the Barricade Down the Street
This new accession by artist Santiago Cucullu has a title as colorful as the image itself: Tatted Up Redhead Holding the Head of My Enemy at the Barricade Down the Street.
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October 14, 2020New Accession Highlight: Face to Face
In her compelling and unsettling collages, Deborah Roberts explores the ways in which society’s idealized and discriminatory conceptions of beauty shape “African American” identity.