Janine 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 […]
November 30, 2020
News and Articles
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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.
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October 5, 2020New Accession Highlight: Manon Cleary
Manon Cleary is remembered for her prolific output of painstakingly photo-realistic paintings and drawings addressing themes of the human body and sexuality, including her own.
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September 25, 2020New Accession Highlight: Juchitechas Platicando
This print, Juchitecas Platicando (Juchitecán Women Talking), depicts three statuesque women from the city of Juchiteca in the state of Oaxaca in southeastern Mexico.
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September 21, 2020New Accession Highlight: American Guardian
Although he was born in Seattle as a third-generation American, Roger Shimomura spent two years of his childhood in an internment camp for Japanese Americans in Idaho during World War II.
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September 16, 2020New Accession Highlight: Paysage au ciel clair
Throughout his career, Dubuffet’s work changed dramatically from period to period, as he experimented with atypical materials and techniques.