Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Fridays After 5 (July 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41378 41378-9196837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Stop in to UMMA on select Friday evenings to enjoy special exhibitions and engaging activities at Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's galleries remaining open until 8 p.m., this exciting series provides an interactive atmosphere for all audiences. This Fridays After 5 will feature Naked Ace, A2’s rock n’ soul cover band! Park in the Maynard Structure (between Liberty and William) and receive free, validated parking. The Museum is always free.

UMMA Fridays After 5 are generously supported by Comerica Bank and State Street District. The media sponsor for Fridays After 5 is Michigan Radio.

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Recreational / Games Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:20:12 -0400 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Recreational / Games Fridays After 5
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Picturing Buildings (July 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (July 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (July 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (July 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (July 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (July 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Meet Me at UMMA: A Museum Arts Experience for Persons with Mild Memory Loss and Their Care Partners (July 30, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41377 41377-9196836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Meet Me at UMMA invites people with mild memory loss to enjoy a guided gallery experience along with family members or care partners. This program is designed for people who live at home and their companions.

If you or someone you care about is experiencing mild memory loss, research has shown that the visual and expressive arts can be good for your mind. In addition, great enjoyment is to be found in seeking out the sights, sounds, textures, and good feelings that come with looking at, learning, and sharing feelings about paintings, music, and other creative arts. UMMA's trained docents will accompany small groups for a guided tour and provide the opportunity for everyone to experience different kinds of art and share their responses.

Meet Me at UMMA is generously supported by the Monroe-Brown Foundation Discretionary Fund for Outreach to the State of Michigan and individual donors.

To register for this program, email kmpeil@alz.org, or call the local Alzheimer’s Association 800.272.3900 at any time. For more information, please contact UMMA at 734.647.0522 during normal business hours.

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Well-being Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:17:37 -0400 2017-07-30T15:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Well-being UMMA
Cosmogonic Tattoos (July 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (July 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (July 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (July 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (July 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Picturing Buildings (August 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40823 40823-8791026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Sun, 07 May 2017 18:00:53 -0400 2017-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985 (August 13, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41653 41653-9417971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts, use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:18:08 -0400 2017-08-13T14:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855–1985
In Conversation: Mobilizing Memory at Willow Run (August 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41656 41656-9417975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email.

After a 2013 visit to the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan, Ernestine Ruben photographed the now-dormant facility, which was designed during World War II by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Khan. Join Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer Friess, for a conversation about the roles memory and history play in Ruben's photographs and a special screening of the new film Willow Run, which weaves together Ruben's photographs and an original score by composer Stephen Hartke.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:29:25 -0400 2017-08-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Blurred Lights, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Storytime at the Museum (August 19, 2017 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41657 41657-9417977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Children ages three to six are invited to join in on some children’s fun, hear a story, and do a short activity responding to the art on display. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Store.

Storytime is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:40:00 -0400 2017-08-19T11:15:00-04:00 2017-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Class / Instruction Storytime at the Museum
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (August 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-08-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory (August 20, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41654 41654-9417972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II. For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:21:43 -0400 2017-08-20T14:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Gloss: Modeling Beauty (August 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 41652-9417836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:12:57 -0400 2017-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Halsman Halle
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Gloss: Modeling Beauty (August 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 41652-9417837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:12:57 -0400 2017-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Halsman Halle
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Guided Tour (August 27, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41655 41655-9417974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni on the global art world. This exhibition features works collected by a diverse group of alumni and the artworks themselves span 3,500 years of art making. Victors for Art offers visitors an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not together. Presented in two parts—Figuration (February 18-June 11, 2017) and Abstraction (July 1-October 29, 2017), this second part, Abstraction, invites visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and
genres. UMMA docents will explore the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, Kenojuak Ashevak, and Do Ho Su, as well as other treasures such as a fifth-century Korean roof end tile, and an Amish quilt.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Presentation Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:25:53 -0400 2017-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Gloss: Modeling Beauty (August 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 41652-9417838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:12:57 -0400 2017-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Halsman Halle
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Gloss: Modeling Beauty (August 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 41652-9417839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:12:57 -0400 2017-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Halsman Halle
Moving Image: Portraiture (August 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41372 41372-9194724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:42:42 -0500 2017-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Moving Image: Portraiture
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (August 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (August 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41371 41371-9194631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:51:44 -0400 2017-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell