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  • Ugly: An Alternative Look at Western Art
    June 5, 2013 - July 29, 2013
    Kemper Art Museum, Teaching Gallery
    "Beauty has only one form; ugliness has a thousand." – Victor Hugo, preface to Cromwell, 1827 For many people, the history of Western art exists as an imagined litany of beautiful artworks, a chronology of...   more
  • Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks
    September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014
    Ebsworth Gallery
    Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks is the first museum exhibition to survey the career of this Chicago-born, New York-based artist. Using photography, painting, sculpture, and video, Johnson challenges...   more
  • Red
    September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014
    Kemper Art Museum, Teaching Gallery
    If one says "Red" (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. ...   more

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Art Museum Day

On May 18, more than 100 institutions across North America—including the Kemper Art Museum—will celebrate Art Museum Day with a variety of free activities, special programming, and other initiatives.

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