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  • March 27, 2023

    Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection

    The Human Figure in the Chazen Museum of Art’s Contemporary African Art Initiative Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection presents forty-five works […]

  • September 26, 2022

    Message from Our Planet

    Message from Our Planet is curated around the idea that media technologies―from vintage devices to cutting-edge digital algorithms―offer distinct ways for artists to communicate with […]

  • August 11, 2022

    (De)constructing the Everyday: Art History 506, Curatorial Studies Exhibition Practice

    Joy Episalla is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, photography, and installation. Episalla’s work forces the viewer to confront the intimacy of the everyday, […]

  • Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942), Fertility, 1939. Lithograph, 9 x 12 in. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gunther W. Heller. 1985.305
    May 25, 2022

    Resource & Ruin: Wisconsin’s Enduring Landscape

    From the earliest European encounters with the Americas, artists have been fascinated with representing its plains, rivers, forests, and mountains. This exhibition introduces some of […]

  • May 25, 2022

    Echoing Overseas: Asian Artistic Exchange

    Cultural exchange has been one of the most powerful driving forces in the development of art across time. Echoing Overseas traces Asia-based artistic exchange in […]

  • March 28, 2022

    I Left My Heart…

    Panczenko MFA Prize Exhibition 2022 I Left My Heart… is a love letter to San Francisco. In the exhibition, the relationship unfolds through dozens of photographs […]

  • March 16, 2022

    Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance

    For generations, University of Wisconsin–Madison students and staff have been committed to the “fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found,” […]

  • Amanda McCavour with her thread drawings in the Mayer Gallery.
    December 10, 2021

    Suspended Landscapes: Thread Drawings by Amanda McCavour

    Amanda McCavour’s thread drawings  fill the Elvehjem building’s Paige Court, depicting Wisconsin flora on a monumental scale. The work was commissioned to mark the building’s—and […]

  • December 10, 2021

    Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest

    Pressing Innovation explores the history and work of fine-art printing presses in the Upper Midwest, focusing on each press’s distinct mission and contribution to printmaking […]

  • Detail of Carolina Parrots from The Birds of America, John James Audubon
    October 28, 2021

    Seeing Audubon: Robert Havell, Jr. and The Birds of America

    John James Audubon’s The Birds of America has been analyzed by scholars of art history, ornithology, and history of science and mythologized within American frontier […]

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