General interest
Professor High’s Impact on Black Art at UW–Madison
by Sophia Abrams ’22 The year is 1971. Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” oozes soulfully from the radio. On the sixth floor, in the relief […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sirani 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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Stories From Before the First Fifty
The Father of the Elvehjem
Stories From Before the First Fifty Years Art History Professor James Watrous left his mark on the UW campus in myriad ways, as a student, […]
A Different Kind of Border Wall
Stories From Before the First Fifty Years Wisconsin students quickly transformed the construction site of the Elvehjem Art Center into a public commentary on life […]
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