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08.28.2009 2:46 pm

SLAM open Labor Day

The St. Louis Art Museum will be open Labor Day, Sept. 7, its normal hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. That Monday will also mark the last day of its popular summer video installation, Doug Aitken’s “migration (empire) – linear…

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07.30.2009 2:35 pm

SLAM to show Japanese screens

The St. Louis Art Museum has announced its major fall exhibition, and its title is a mouthful. “Five Centuries of Japanese Screens: Masterpieces from the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago” opens in the museum’s special…

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06.17.2009 6:01 pm

SLAM Loans Renoir Sculpture to Clayton

 
The St. Louis Art Museum has loaned “Venus Victorious,” a sculpture by the popular Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir to the city of Clayton. The six-foot tall sculpture has been installed in Shaw Park’s Centennial Garden. The sculpture, which depicts a…
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06.17.2009 5:58 pm

New Freund Fellows Chosen by SLAM and Wash. U.

The St. Louis Art Museum and Washington University have chosen Bruce Yonemoto and Ian Munroe as the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellows for the academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11. A unique collaboration between the two institutions, the…
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06.03.2009 4:54 pm

Ansel Adams Show to Open at SLAM

 

The St. Louis Art Museum will open “Ansel Adams in Yosemite” June 12 in Gallery 321. The nine images were taken by the popular photographer and founder of the Sierra Club between 1933 and 1958. Adams first visited the Yosemite…

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05.27.2009 5:21 pm

SLAM to Show Doug Aitken

 

The St. Louis Art Museum will present Doug Aitken’s “migration (empire)” this summer in the museum’s main exhibition galleries. Aitken’s video projection will explore, according to the museum, “the confrontation between nature and culture, past and present, the wild and…

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05.22.2009 5:48 pm

“Action/Abstraction” Wins Award

“Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1946-1976” has won an award for excellence for 2008 from the Association of Art Museum Curators. The exhibition, organized by the Jewish Museum in New York, appeared locally at the St. Louis Art…
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04.15.2009 2:09 pm

St. Louis Art Museum to cut budget

In response to the current economic downturn, the St. Louis Art Museum announced today a number of cost-cutting measures, including possible layoffs. The goal is to save the museum at least $1.5 million.

Revisions to the museum’s 2009 budget anticipate less…

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03.19.2009 3:14 pm

David Chipperfield wins kudos for Neues Museum

David Chipperfield’s design for the renovated Neues Museum in Berlin received generous praise in the March 12 New York Times from Times roving cultural critic Michael Kimmelman.  Previewing the museum before its collection was installed, Kimmelman wrote that the completed project was “beautiful”…

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03.04.2009 6:08 pm

Tyler Green Trades SLAM Beckmann for Picasso

Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes (MAN) on www.artsjournal.com is the blog to read in the visual arts. Today (March 4), he has been proposing trades between museums that are well-endowed in one area but weak in another. Read his proposal for…

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