Collecting Wonders

Beginning in the 16th century in Europe, collectors assembled Wunderkammern, so-called cabinets of curiosity designed to evince wonder and awe. These collections housed weird and sometimes wild conjunctions of the natural and the man-made, the local and the exotic. Claudia Swan, the inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, will discuss how objects in curiosity cabinets were collected, exchanged, stolen, organized, and valued.

Tickets for the on-site program are free, but may be reserved in person at the Museum’s Information Centers or through MetroTix. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets reserved at the Museum.

This lecture will also be livestreamed for free via Zoom and will have automated closed captions. Livestream attendees must register to receive the Zoom link. To register for the livestream click here. 

Member and WashU Preview: Adam Pendleton: To Divide By

Kemper Art Museum members and WashU faculty, staff and students are invited to be among the first to view Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, a major exhibition of the artist’s new and recent paintings, drawings and video portraits that together reveal Pendleton’s interest in creating a conversation between mediums, as well as his belief in abstraction’s capacity to destabilize and disrupt.

Public Tour: ‘Adam Pendleton: To Divide By’

Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Adam Pendleton: To Divide By. Pendleton’s paintings and other works address codes of representation and abstraction, visual and literary uses of language, and the aesthetics of Blackness. The exhibition showcases an assemblage of the American artist’s new and recent paintings, drawings, and video portraits that together reveal his interest in creating a conversation between mediums and his belief in abstraction’s capacity to disrupt.

Free and open to the public. Please check in at the Welcome Desk when arriving for the tour to secure your place.

The Open Collection: Discover Art Special Collections

There are over 4,200 items in the Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library Special Collections. Come learn about this collection and interact with recent acquisitions and popular selections in the Kranzberg Library Reading Room. Remarks will be at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Free and open to all, registration requested.

Chinese-Language Tour: ‘Adam Pendleton: To Divide By’

Join student educator Weixun Qu, PhD student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, for a tour of this season’s exhibition Adam Pendleton: To Divide By. The exhibition showcases an assemblage of the American artist’s new and recent paintings, drawings, and video portraits that together reveal his interest in creating a conversation between mediums and his belief in abstraction’s capacity to disrupt.

Free and open to the public. Please check in at the Welcome Desk when arriving for the tour to secure your place.

中文美术展览：Adam Pendleton

邀请您来和艺术史暨考古学系博士生曲维洵共同欣赏Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum本期展览《Adam Pendleton：To Divide By》。本次展览将聚焦于美国当代 艺术家Adam Pendleton新近的画作、绘图和肖像影片，这些作品展现出他对于创造 各种材料间对话的兴趣，以及他对于抽象艺术具有破坏性的信念