The Kemper Art Museum recently hosted its first concert event of the semester as part of the series “Kemper Unplugged,” with a performance from local band The Wire Pilots. Last Friday at noon, the jazz trio played a quick, 45-minute set in the lobby of the museum — free for everyone. 

John Klein, professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University, lectured on the Saint Louis Art Museum’s (SLAM’s) spring exhibition “Matisse by the Sea” at an event hosted by the French Department, Feb. 20.

“African Modernism in America” is the first major traveling exhibition that examines the interconnection between African artists with key historical time periods such as the Civil Rights Movement, decolonization, and the Cold War.

The Kemper Art Museum opened a new exhibition, “Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988-2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions,” by renowned contemporary German artist Katharina Grosse, Sept 23. 

Ai Weiwei’s “Human Flow” is a meditation on misery that is a challenge, privilege and responsibility to watch. The film focuses on the journeys of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) as they move from temporary location to temporary location, and provides both close-ups of individual situations and detached shots filmed using drones.

Artist, activist, master of the readymade style and political exile of his own country, Ai Weiwei is one of the best-known figures of the modern art world. His new exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, titled “Bare Life,” is divided into two sections: “Bare Life” and “Rupture”.

Mardi Gras in St. Louis is definitely something you should experience at least once. That said, it’s not for everyone.

The Kemper Art Museum’s current special exhibition, “To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare,” includes pieces from international artists that critique drone warfare. Through the use of videos, photography, online art and installations, the artists share their distressful findings on this secretive practice by our government and military.

Just yesterday, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum completed installing its cell phone tour. It was created specifically to broaden accessibility and spread information about all of the art around campus owned by the Kemper (both paintings located indoors and outdoor sculptures).

After months of reading about his work and watching the film “American Night” (2009) on my laptop at home through Vimeo, I finally got the chance to sit down with artist Julian Rosefeldt. The Berlin-based contemporary artist, filmmaker and professor visited last Friday to deliver a lecture at Washington University in conjunction with the opening of his exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.