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Metabolic City at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

Exhibition to explore visionary architecture of the 1960s

Aug. 21, 2009 -- Amidst the cultural and political ferment of the 1960s, avant-garde artists and architects began embracing biological and scientific models as well as the potentials of emerging technologies to explore radical new directions in urban design, developing projects that were at once fanciful, complex and conceptually serious.

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Chance Aesthetics at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

Major loan exhibition to explore use of chance, randomness and probability in modern art

Aug. 5, 2009 -- Dripping or flinging paint; flipping coins to compose musical scores; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition -- since the early 20th century avant-garde artists have used these processes and many others to explore the creative possibilities of chance and its attendant release of authorial intent. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Chance Aesthetics, a major loan exhibition investigating the use of chance as a key compositional principle in modern art.

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Kemper Art Museum wins $50,000 grant from Andy Warhol Foundation

Grant to support Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break

July 30, 2009 -- The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis has received a $50,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., to support the exhibition Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break. Organized by Sabine Eckmann, Ph.D., the museum's director and chief curator, the exhibition will open Feb. 10, 2010, and remain on view through April 19.

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announces 2009-10 schedule

Major exhibitions include Chance Aesthetics, Metabolic City and Sharon Lockhart--Lunch Break

June 30, 2009 -- In an unstable world chance events can seem to threaten our claims to self-determination. Yet in the early 20th century avant-garde artists embraced chance as a primary compositional principle. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Chance Aesthetics, a major loan exhibition examining the use of chance in modern art, from found objects and splattered paint to musical scores composed with the flip of a coin.

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Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announce new residency

Allison Smith to serve as inaugural Freund Visiting Artist

June 15, 2009 -- Installation artist Allison Smith will serve as the inaugural Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Smith is known for creating large-scale works that critically engage popular forms of historical reenactment, along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions, to redo, restage and refigure historical memories.

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