Show Ending, New Year Beginning
Read the blog posted on saintlouisartmap.org. Find out about the Piñata Closing Party, the event to mark the end of the exhibition For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that...
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The Museum is closed for installation until January 22 which is Opening Night of Sean Landers: 1991-1994, Improbable History and Stephen Prina: Modern Movie Popin the Main Galleries and Xavier Cha in...
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NAN Students Explore Autobiographical Art
Artist Sean Landers, whose work is in the Contemporary’s current exhibition, Sean Landers: 1991-1994, Improbable History, recently led a New Art in the Neighborhood session. His workshop focused on...
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The Contemporary Gets Its LibraryThing Going
I’m Michael Goodwin, and I have been working as an intern at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Recently, I began the detailed project of revamping the Contemporary’s library. My goals were to...
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Great Rivers Biennial 2010 Opens
The fourth iteration of the Great Rivers Biennial opened Friday night, April 30. The Biennial is a collaboration between the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation designed to...
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Three Days in New York with Sean Landers
Sean and I, fountainside, in Washington Square Park Last week I spent three days working with Sean Landers in his Chelsea studio, preparing the design for his upcoming catalog. The major monograph,...
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Open Studios Recap
If you missed Open Studios this year, don’t worry, there is always next year. A previous blog post already mentioned the Preview Party which had a record breaking 720 people in attendance. Special...
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Alex Elmestad Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
Congratulations to Alex Elmestad, CAM’s Manager of Public Programs and Interpretive Technology, on the opening of his artist-in-residence exhibition, Institutional Memory, at the Luminary Center for...
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CAM at EXPO CHICAGO
CAM is pleased to be participating in the inaugural EXPO CHICAGO art fair, September 20–23 (Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Avenue, Chicago). We will be presenting an interactive installation by Lauren...
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Has the World Changed or Have I Changed?
Jeremy Deller, Has the World Changed or Have I Changed?, 2000. Performance, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany. Courtesy the artist. © Jeremy Deller I first met Jeremy Deller at his studio in London in 2000....
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Open Studios STL
Although Open Studios has now become an accepted tradition here at CAM, it is instructive to consider how singular and unique a phenomenon it is in the larger context of national and international...
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