A major traveling exhibition of art and performances from the Fluxus movement is stopping at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. "Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" includes more than 100 artworks by major players in the pivotal 1960s and 1970s international art movement. The exhibition runs Feb. ...
Just as avant-garde stage director and playwright Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach”—recently presented in Ann Arbor—is intended to redefine epic theater, “Video 50” at the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s New Media Gallery is intended to redefine the art of cinema. But where “Einstein on the Beach” represents ...
"Making Fire, Democratic Republic of Congo" by Jim Goldberg The whimsy of art and the hard nose of journalism meet comfortably in the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s epic-scaled “Face of Our Time.” On display in the UMMA’s spacious second-story A. Alfred Taubman Gallery, this extraordinary pictorial exhibition consists ...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art has received a grant of $650,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support and expand a comprehensive initiative for collections-based teaching and learning. According to a press release, the 40-month grant from the Mellon Foundation has three goals: to engage and sustain ...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art last night hosted one of its "After Hours" events, and the museum has posted a set of photos from the event to its Flickr account. The event showcased four fall special exhibits at the museum. Another After Hours is scheduled April 12. See ...
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"Maya" by Mark di Suvero Whether or not you’re aware of it, you’ve been passing two of Mark di Suvero’s best artworks when you’ve gone past South State Street and South University Avenue at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Di Suvero’s “Orion” (2006) and “Shang” (1984-85) have greatly ...
A still from "Day is Done" Mike Kelley’s monumental “Day is Done” has made the University of Michigan Museum of Art a very interesting place to visit. In fact, the idea behind this lengthy (169-minute) video presentation—the inaugural offering of the UMMA’s New Media Gallery—has made the UMMA a far ...
"Darling of the Times" by Liu Qingyuan “Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints,” on display at the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s expansive second-story A. Alfred Taubman Gallery, is a perfect fit. Featuring 114 artworks by 41 leading printmakers from contemporary China, “Multiple Images” fully uses this space—easily our ...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art has announced a planned exhibit of smaller works by sculptor Mark di Suvero, best known for large-scale pieces. The exhibit of 15 of di Suvero's "tabletop" works will run Oct. 8-Feb. 26 at the museum, 525 S. State St. in Ann Arbor. The ...
It's always hot for the Ann Arbor Art Fair. But it's not always this hot. And today just might be the hottest day of the four. Although a variety of strategies can help deal with the heat, a key part of enjoying the fair experience is simply taking a break, ...
"On Education" “Babble, Blabber, Chatter, Gibber, Jabber, Patter, Prattle, Rattle, Yammer, Yada, Yada, Yada” pretty much describes Amalia Pica’s display in the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s Irving Stenn Jr., Family Project Gallery. The fact that this is also the title of one of her 6 artworks on display ...
"Crystalloid Columns" by Kim Yikyung “Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists” at the University of Michigan Museum of Art pulls together clay art by five of this country’s most talented living ceramicists in a spectacular display of functional and nonfunctional aesthetics. The exhibit ties together two strands of Korean ...
Untitled photograph by Ernestine Ruben, part of the "Photoformance" installation “Photoformance: An Empathic Environment” at the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s Irving Stenn Jr., Family Project Gallery isn’t slowing down its phantasmagoria any time soon. This audacious multimedia production melds the talents of U-M alum photographer Ernestine Ruben; Monica ...
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