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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579277@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160319T130732
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fellow Fellows
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...\"Fellow Fellows\"\, the Architecture Fellows Presentation and Exhibition Opening. \n\nThe exhibition of projects of the 2015-2016 Architecture Fellows opens on Wednesday\, March 23 and runs through the end of the Winter term (May 2). The Fellows will present their projects to the college at 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium. The projects present their ongoing research during their yearlong fellowship. A reception will follow the presentations\, with exhibition on view in the college gallery.\n\n\nCyrus Peñarroyo - William Muschenheim Fellow\n\nBLDG_DRWG\nBLDG_DRWG recoups handwrought drawing effects and rearranges drawing conventions at the building scale in order to reorient the ways in which architecture is produced and consumed. Oscillating between analog methods (ink\, paint\, tape) and digital processes (scanning\, photoshop filtering\, milling)\, this project intensifies attributes of drawing otherwise lost in translation. A series of 1:1 investigations harnesses the potency of these effects and uses them to emphasize\, deemphasize\, or reconstitute existing architectural conditions. The results of these studies are reassembled in the gallery as a room––one fragment of an unfinished building––that speaks to the instability of its own representation.\n\nTeam members: Andrew Barkhouse\, Peter Watkins\nWith assistance from: Chris Campbell\, Samantha Eng\, Matt Culver\, Asa Peller\, Tafhim Rahman\n\n\nAshley Bigham - Walter B. Sanders Fellow\n\nSafety Not Guaranteed\nArchitecture is inseparable from defense. From its most primitive and revered “origins\,” architecture was rehearsed in environments of conflict. As an alternative to the term defense architecture\, a category which typically refers to forms and types (fortresses\, citadels\, bastions\, urban walls)\, this project proposes the idea of an architecture of defense. An architecture of defense sees all of architecture as a reaction to some measure of paranoia and studies the built environment to recognize measures and methods used to subdue these fears. Safety Not Guaranteed explores the architecture of paranoia through a series of design manipulations and exaggerations. Its setting is the network of suburbia and everyday domestic scenes—spaces most commonly associated with privacy\, safety\, and security and where fortification occurs on the scale of the front door\, the home\, the cul-de-sac\, and the neighborhood.\n\nTeam Members: Connor Brindza\, James Howe\, Neall Oliver\, Sasha Pfeiffer\, Mark Boynton\, Kamsy Anyachebelu\n\n\nDavid Eskenazi - Willard A. Oberdick Fellow\n\nFor the Trees\nAt first I noticed how naked the papers were\, since they didn’t seem to be acting like something else. I guess they were supposed to be models\, it was an architecture exhibit after all\, but they were missing all those things that point elsewhere: no doors\, no windows\, nothing that particularly looks like anything but itself. They were formed\, sure\, but that’s not really enough to point outwards. Or is it? Before you answer\, there was one more thing: some of the papers were near an enlarged duplicate. Actually\, maybe they were shrunken copies. It was a lot like that moment at the top of Runyon Canyon when you turn around and realize there’s an entire other\, slightly smaller Los Angeles behind you. Were you just looking at the original\, or the copy? I think the most interesting part is right afterwards when your focus shifts around you to the ground\, the dirt\, the trees.. all that stuff that frames what you’re looking at\, like the base of a model or scale figures or model trees. Come to think of it\, the papers did look like trees. But the resemblance is fleeting\, and now I’m certain the papers were in fact models pointing around at each other. Or were they in the background\, acting like a frame for something else\, something that wasn’t there?\n\n\nAbout University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:\n\nThe Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful\, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice\, advancing global engagement\, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture\, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally\; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report)\, Master of Science in Architecture\, Master of Urban Planning\, Master of Urban Design\, and PhD programs.
UID:29842-3230273@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Education,Architecture,Graduate School,Lecture
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium (Rm 2104)
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DTSTAMP:20160229T131851
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Getting Through It—Living Life as a Human Being Instead of a Human Doing—Burnout Prevention for Managers
DESCRIPTION:As a manager\, you spend your days meeting one obligation after another. There are many challenges that create pressure and stress that are often difficult and sometimes impossible to handle. This means there is a great risk of burning out not just at the workplace\, but also at home. This workshop will help you develop coping skills for the stressors in workplace settings\, the stress of life in general\, and help you enjoy life as a human being instead of as a human doing.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nIdentify self-care strategies that will help you manage work pressures\nApply techniques to counteract the symptoms of burnout\nChoose action steps to help you live a more balanced life\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nDecreased pressure both at work and at home\nDeveloping coping skills for the stresses of life\nGaining a sense of balance between work and home life\n\nAudience:\n\nManagers\, supervisors\, and those responsible for overseeing the work of others
UID:29289-3058441@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29289
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Professional Development,Networking,Leadership,Career
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160516T143933
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero:  The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii - February 19-May 15\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:Organized in cooperation with the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii and the Oplontis Project at the University of Texas\, this international traveling exhibition explores the lavish lifestyle and economic interests of some of ancient Rome’s wealthiest and most powerful citizens\, who vacationed along the Bay of Naples. Julius Caesar\, Cicero\, Augustus\, and Nero all owned villas in this region. With more than 200 objects on loan from Italy\, the exhibition focuses on two structures at Oplontis that were buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. One is an enormous luxury villa that may once have belonged to the family of Nero’s second wife Poppaea. The other is a nearby commercial-residential complex—a center for the trade in wine and other produce of villa lands. Together these two establishments speak eloquently of the ways in which the Roman elite built\, maintained\, and displayed their vast wealth\, political power\, and social prestige. In presenting a selection of impressive works of art along with ordinary utilitarian objects\, the exhibition also calls attention to Roman disparities of wealth\, social class\, and consumption. Such disparities were as problematic for Roman society as they are for ours today.\n\nThis exhibition in Ann Arbor will remain open to the public until May 15\, 2016. It will also be shown at the Museum of the Rockies at the Montana State University\, Bozeman (June 17-December 31\, 2016) and the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton\, Massachusetts (February 3-August 13\, 2017).\n\nOplontis inv. 73412a: Image of gold and emerald necklace courtesy of Pio Foglia\, Fotographica Foglia s.a.s.
UID:27780-2561816@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27780
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,Exhibition
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Meader Gallery, Second Floor of Upjohn Exhibit Wing
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DTSTAMP:20160314T181550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show
DESCRIPTION:Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by 92 graduating BFA\, BA\, and Interarts students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. The exhibition unfolds over 17 days in five exhibition sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: Michigan Theater\, Duderstadt Video Studio\, Slusser Gallery\, Work Gallery\, and Argus Building. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings\, live performance\, and opening receptions. The exhibition is free and open to the public.\n\nExhibition Openings & Events\n\nThursday\, April 14\nScreenings: Michigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty Street\, 4 - 5:30 pm\nLive performance and Screenings: Duderstadt Video Studio\, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard\, 7 pm\n\nFriday\, April 15\nOpening Reception: Slusser Gallery\, 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard\, 5 - 8 pm\nLive performance and Screenings: Duderstadt Video Studio\, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard\, 7 pm\n\nSaturday\, April 16\nOpening Reception: Work Gallery\, 306 South State Street\, 5 - 8 pm\nOpening Reception: Argus Building\, 400 Fourth Street\, 6 - 9 pm\n\nVenues\n\nSlusser\nOpen during exhibitions Monday through Friday: 9 am - 5 pm\, Saturday: 12 - 5 pm. Closed Sundays and Holidays.\n2000 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor\, MI 48109-2069\n\nWork: Ann Arbor\nOpen during exhibitions Tuesday through Saturday\, 12 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sundays\, Mondays and Holidays. \n306 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\n\nArgus II Building\nOpen during exhibitions Tuesday through Saturday\, 12 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sundays\, Mondays and Holidays. \n400 4th Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI
UID:29703-3187058@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29703
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Exhibition,Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160322T134341
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T200000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Near Eastern Studies Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to present: \"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Societies:  The Impact of the Work of Piotr Michalowski\,\" a symposium honoring the career of NES Professor Piotr Michalowski\, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. \n\nThis event is a celebration of our colleague Piotr Michalowski and his contributions to Near Eastern studies. In the field of Assyriology\, with its increasing specialization and proliferation of subfields\, Michalowski’s past\, current\, and future work has spanned an impressive range of topics and methodologies. The sum of this work has prompted an occasion to examine the connections between cuneiform studies and neighboring disciplines and to put several different subfields within Assyriology itself into dialogue. Topics of the papers range from music\, to language\, to cultural memory – all dimensions of Michalowski's contributions. \n\n9:00 Breakfast\n\n9:30 Keynote Address\nGary Beckman\, University of Michigan\nForward into the Past: Mesopotamian Studies Since 1970\n \n10-12 Sumerian Language and Literature\nChair: Chris Woods\, University of Chicago\n \nPiotr Steinkeller\, Harvard University\nSumerian City Laments: Historical or Not Historical?\n \nSteven Garfinkle\, Western Washington University\nmu Pi-ut-ur lugal An-ar-burki ma-da mar-tu mu-hul “The year Piotr\, king of Ann Arbor\, defeated the land of the Amorites.” Frontier strategy in the Ur III period: a view from the inside\n \nPaul Delnero\, The Johns Hopkins University  \nWhat is a Sumerian Literary Text?\, Or Why a History of Mesopotamian Religion should be written (and a History of Sumerian Literature should not)\n \nGonzalo Rubio\, Penn State University\nOn the Many Lives of Sumerian\n \nJay Crisostomo\, University of Michigan\nSumerian – Not the Language your Diviner is Looking for\n \nRespondent: Steve Tinney\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n--Break--\n\n1-3 Assyriology: Language and History\nChair: Matt Stolper\, University of Chicago\n \nNiek Veldhuis\, UC Berkeley\nMining the Cuneiform Corpus\n \nPeter Machinist\, Harvard University  \nAkkadian in the First Millennium BC: The View from Israel and Other Western Outposts\n \nGina Konstantopoulos\, NYU-ISAW\nDisgraced Pipers and Animal Orchestras in Mesopotamia\n \nJerrold Cooper\, The Johns Hopkins University / UC Berkeley\nFemale Troubles: Masculinity at the Creation\n \nRespondent: Martha Roth\, University of Chicago\n\n--Coffee Break--\n\n3:30-5:30 The Broader Ancient World\nChair: David Owen\, Cornell University\n \nTom Trautmann\, University of Michigan\nPiotr and the Elephants\n \nJennifer Finn\, Marquette University\nSome Unanswered Letters from the Ancient World\n \nGeoff Emberling\, University of Michigan\nCollective Memory or Public Acquiescence? Insights into the Ancient World from Communist Poland\n \nHenry Wright\, University of Michigan\nAn Archaeologist looks at Ur III\n \nTerry Wilfong\, University of Michigan\nNoise in Ancient Egypt\n \nRespondent: Nicole Brisch\, University of Copenhagen\n \n5:30 Final Remarks\nNorman Yoffee\, University of Michigan\nThe life and times and education of Piotr M\n \n--Reception to Follow--\n \nOrganizers: Gary Beckman (sidd@umich.edu)\, Laura Culbertson (culbertson.laura@gmail.com)\, Gina Konstantopoulos (gina.konstantopoulos@nyu.edu)
UID:29654-3157501@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29654
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Anthropology,History,Literature,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160311T101809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T170000
SUMMARY:Other:Service Cords for Graduating Students
DESCRIPTION:Our goal is to recognize students at graduation that have -- through voluntary service\, activism and advocacy\, or other forms of civic engagement -- helped address or make positive change around a specific social issue in partnership with economically or socially marginalized communities beyond campus.\n\nLearn more and apply here: ginsberg.umich.edu/servicecords
UID:29629-3155170@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Volunteer,Social Justice,Social Impact,Community Service,Commencement
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160323T160856
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T124500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:New Voices and Detroit Museums
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will explore Detroit’s changing cultural landscape and the role that the city’s museums are playing in shaping the city’s present and future.  Museum leaders and emerging professionals will also share their visions for the renewed interest in the potential offered by Detroit’s public spaces.
UID:29928-3266384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Workshop,Visual Arts,UMMA,Museum,Detroit
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160229T085728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: A Cloth of Earth and Sky
DESCRIPTION:Every culture has found ways to restore body\, mind\, and spirit in nature. In this exhibit\, African-American quilters from the Great Lakes region interpret how plants\, gardens\, and nature are embedded in cultural awareness and expressions of health. The exhibit includes contemporary works that express cultural legacy based in the art of quilting related to individual and shared healing. Students from Flint's Eagle's Nest Academy also contributed works for display in the exhibit. Sponsored by the Great Lakes African American Quilters Network & Matthaei-Nichols
UID:27086-3056199@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Multicultural,Environment,Culture,African American
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160323T081336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Hidden Worlds: The Universe of Pollen Revealed in Large-scale Ceramic Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the beautiful forms that pollen takes\, the amazing power of these tiny grains of life\, and the challenges that honeybees and pollinators face\, U-M Stamps School of Art & Design professor Susan Crowell fashioned large-scale ceramic sculptures of pollen. The sculptures will be displayed in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. As part of the exhibit Crowell has also created three sculptures of  pollen collected from the 80-year-old agave that bloomed at Matthaei in 2014. The agave pollen sculptures are based on scanning electron microscope images of the pollen taken by the U-M Hospitals imaging lab.
UID:27101-3065083@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27101
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151118T144634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Christianity to Islam: Egypt between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Selected papyri from the University of Michigan's Papyrology Collection illustrate the government\, society\, and religious culture of Egypt during its transition from Byzantine Christian to Arab Islamic rule (4th to 8th centuries AD). Texts Greek\, Coptic Egyptian\, and Arabic\, many never before on public display\, further highlight the richness and diversity of the U-M Collection.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10am to 5pm.
UID:26651-2127466@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26651
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Exhibition,History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120400@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Exhibition,Art,Architecture
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160218T121547
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T150000
SUMMARY:Performance:Performing Arts Technology Senior Thesis Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Performing Arts Technology seniors will be presenting their thesis projects in an open house format.
UID:28716-2813255@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28716
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North campus,Free,Music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Music Technology Lab
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129484@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160202T134236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160415T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits
DESCRIPTION:The first major U.S. exhibition of the accomplished Chinese artist Xu Weixin (b. 1958)\, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits will focus on two of his acclaimed\, large-size portrait series: Miner Portraits and Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976. The subjects in Miner Portraits are coal miners working in harsh conditions in contemporary China. Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976 depicts people who lived—known and unknown\, and some of whom eventually perished—during the turbulent time of the Cultural Revolution. By portraying these individuals with monumentality and poignant realism\, Xu Weixin brings our focus to their lives and ordeals\, inviting an emotional connection. Reflecting the artist’s deep interest in the human condition\, these single-person portraits challenge our expectations and compel us to see beyond official narratives of historical events and social conditions. Xu Weixin is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing.
UID:28691-2810504@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,International,Exhibition,Chinese Studies,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
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