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”.

“Reason’s Oxymorons,” the title of an art exhibition by Kader Attia, is itself an oxymoronic phrase: It stands to reason that a logical mind would not contain the irreconcilable contradictions necessary to construct such a concept.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum celebrated the 10th anniversary of being in its current building with the opening of its “Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display” exhibition this past Friday, Sept. 9.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum’s new fall exhibition, “World War I: War of Images, Images of War,” introduces an illustrative angle on this portion of history, outlining the visual cultures that were formed around the events of the war. The show was designed architecturally to create an experience that mirrored the order-to-chaos that unfolded—walking through the show was like being strapped into a time machine.

With tuition on the rise again this year, we find it germane to remind the Wash. U. community what might help make the payments feel more worthwhile. To that end we present our list of Washington University’s underused and overlooked locales, which we hope you’ll investigate over the coming year.

“Chance Aesthetics” and “Metabolics” are two very disparate exhibitions, yet, on some level, they accomplish the same purpose.

It is one of the most famous works of art at Washington University, but its not housed at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

While most Washington University students have been to, or know of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, they may not know the local roots of the museum. Now part of […]