Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-13176834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2018-08-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-16T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11885000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53392 53392-13358060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

'See Through' looks at how photographers of these images doubly frame the world around us—once through the frame of the camera lens and, again, through the frame of a reflective mirror or transparent window. UMMA Docents will reveal which photographers include their own reflections in their photographs, highlighting their active role in the creation of images. A tour will also indicate which photographers look outward, enacting an exchange of public and, sometimes, voyeuristic glances; and which look inward to domestic spaces, framing intimate views and personal moments among families and lovers. Windows and mirrors, like the medium of photography itself, expand the limits of the human eye to perceive the world and, in turn, invite viewers to see through to new visual possibilities.

Lead support for 'See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography' is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:12:34 -0400 2018-08-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-19T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-21T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-13176835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2018-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-23T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (August 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Storytime at the Museum (August 25, 2018 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53394 53394-13358062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 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. During the summer we take advantage of the warm weather and the public art situated outside the Museum. As always, we include a fun, age-appropriate hands-on activity related to the story. Children ages three to six are invited to join Storytime. 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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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:24:47 -0400 2018-08-25T11:15:00-04:00 2018-08-25T12:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Storytime
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (August 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53396 53396-13358064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. Join UMMA docents as they explore the significant themes of our times including slavery, colonization, migration, racism and identity.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:02:50 -0400 2018-08-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-26T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (August 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (August 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (August 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-13176836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2018-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (August 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (August 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Artscapade! (August 31, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/23020 23020-12978410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing more than 4,000 students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.

Also, we're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!): http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:07:38 -0400 2018-08-31T19:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Reception / Open House Artscapade Promo
Artscapade! (August 31, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53397 53397-13358065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA and Arts at Michigan celebrate Welcome Week by introducing new University of Michigan students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus. This evening event will feature live music and performances, dance, poetry, film, games, prizes, and a variety of art-making activities.

Student programming at UMMA 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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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:38:57 -0400 2018-08-31T19:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Artscapade!
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
UMMA Pop-Up: Music from Nadim Azzam feat. Jacob LaChance on Saxophone (September 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53764 53764-13459397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Singer-songwriter Nadim Azzam will be performing his unique blend of acoustic blues, pop, and hip-hop. Nadim's catchy and conscious lyrics paired with his melodic rapping have earned him the stage at Top of the Park, Sonic Lunch, and Buttermilk Jamboree this year, as well as a national tour with Matisyahu.

www.nadimazzam.com
facebook.com/azzammusic
​instagram.com/azzammusic

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Performance Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:45:14 -0400 2018-09-02T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Nadim Azzam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
UMMA Pop Up: Progressive Acoustic Music with Warren & Flick (September 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53765 53765-13459398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Warren & Flick explore the nuanced textures of a two-person band. Using both original material and standards from many genres that they have arranged in a personal style, the group finds new depth in the simplicity of the duo. Jacob Warren plays double bass, while Grant Flick plays violin, tenor guitar and mandolin. Currently based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, the two met at the 2015 Acoustic Music Seminar (AMS), a program accepting only sixteen young string players from around the world to participate in a week of intense improvisation, composition, and performance training. A part of the Savannah Music Festival in Georgia, AMS is led by multi-instrumentalist Mike Marshall with the help of guitarist Julian Lage.

After discovering their shared musical interests, Jacob and Grant began collaborating as a duo as well as in larger projects including “The Leafless” and “Westbound Situation,” both comprised of former AMS participants. Jacob and Grant attend University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, & Dance, where they spend much of their time arranging, composing and performing together. With Jacob’s classical foundation and Grant’s experience in bluegrass and jazz, their contrasting backgrounds give them a unique and compelling musical narrative.

Find them on Facebook.

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Performance Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:49:03 -0400 2018-09-08T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Warren & Flick
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (September 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53766 53766-13459400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition "Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa" includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for "Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:55:20 -0400 2018-09-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Yinka Shonibare MBE, Untitled (Dollhouse), 2002, wood, fabric, paper, plastic, metal, resin, offset lithograph. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Peter Norton Family Foundation, 2002/1.236 © Yinka Shonibare MBE. All Rights Reserved, Peter Norton Family Foundation, 2018. Photography: Charlie Edwards
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
SMTD@UMMA Performance: JIT Exchange (September 13, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53471 53471-13386080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A cross-cultural synthesis of Zimbabwean jiti, Detroit ghetto tech, jit dance, jazz and funk performed by dancer/choreographers Haleem “Stringz” Rasul of Detroit and Franco “Slomo” Dhaka of Harare, Zimbabwe, with live music by SMTD alumnus Everett Reid and a student Jazz combo.

Presented in partnership with the Center for World Performance Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Zimbabwean Cultural Center of Detroit, and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Performance Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:19:41 -0400 2018-09-13T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Museum of Art
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
David Gutierrez & Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz (September 14, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55380 55380-13722987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Mark Webster Reading Series

Poetry and Prose from second-year MFA candidates

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Other Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:23:06 -0400 2018-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Mark Webster Reading Series Other Museum of Art
Mark Webster Reading Series (September 14, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53768 53768-13459401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features David Gutierrez and Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz.

David Gutierrez is a writer from Iowa.

Lorenzo Diaz Cruz: "the true world featherweight champion, son of Conchy and Guillermo Diaz, anti-Communist and a living legend.”

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Presentation Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:58:36 -0400 2018-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Mark Webster Reading
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
UMMA Pop Up: Solo with Ryan Schildcrout (September 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53769 53769-13459402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Ryan Schildcrout is a jazz pianist and saxophonist from Metro Detroit. His style of solo piano playing takes on standards from swing to pop, working to bring jazz into the modern age.

Find Ryan on Facebook @ryansethmusic.

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Performance Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:01:44 -0400 2018-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Guided Tour - Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53396 53396-13459403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. Join UMMA docents as they explore the significant themes of our times including slavery, colonization, migration, racism and identity.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:02:50 -0400 2018-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
In Conversation: Between Windows and Mirrors (September 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53770 53770-13459404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 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 visit our website to register.

Photographs are often referred to as “reflections of life” or “windows on the world.” Yet, photographers often seek to elide or distort clear views of the visual world. Join John Cantú, arts writer, and Jennifer Friess, UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography, for a conversation in the exhibition as they discuss issues of realism in photography in the exhibition "See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography." Together with the audience, they will explore a selection of images in depth—parsing the visual possibilities of images that employ windows and mirrors.

Lead support for "See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:07:54 -0400 2018-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation See Through
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Value the Voice (September 18, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53771 53771-13459405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members).​

Light food and refreshments will follow in the UMMA Commons.

Value the Voice will take place on Tuesdays, September 18, November 13, January 22, March 19, 7 p.m. UMMA Auditorium.

For more information, please contact Keith Jason at mrjason@umich.edu or 734-764-9128

Value the Voice is organized by the Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of African American Studies, and co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:11:55 -0400 2018-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Value the Voice
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Esmé Wang & Danielle Lazarin (September 20, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52952 52952-13157428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Danielle Lazarin’s debut collection of short stories, Back Talk, has been praised for its ability to bend form and turn the story into something that is temporally and emotionally elastic. A New York Times pick for a 2018 special book review issue on women, Lazarin is a graduate of Oberlin College’s creative writing program, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where her stories and essays won Hopwood Awards.

Esmé Weijun Wang is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, The Border of Paradise, was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR and one of the 25 Best Novels of 2016 by Electric Literature. She was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017, won the Whiting Award in 2018, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, she lives in San Francisco.

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Other Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:45:12 -0400 2018-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other Esme Wang and Danielle Lazarin
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (September 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Guided Tour - See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (September 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53392 53392-13459406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

'See Through' looks at how photographers of these images doubly frame the world around us—once through the frame of the camera lens and, again, through the frame of a reflective mirror or transparent window. UMMA Docents will reveal which photographers include their own reflections in their photographs, highlighting their active role in the creation of images. A tour will also indicate which photographers look outward, enacting an exchange of public and, sometimes, voyeuristic glances; and which look inward to domestic spaces, framing intimate views and personal moments among families and lovers. Windows and mirrors, like the medium of photography itself, expand the limits of the human eye to perceive the world and, in turn, invite viewers to see through to new visual possibilities.

Lead support for 'See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography' is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:12:34 -0400 2018-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Sigrid Nunez & Aracelis Girmay (September 27, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52953 52953-13157429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Aracelis Girmay was born and raised in Santa Ana, California. She received a BA from Connecticut College in 1999 and went on to earn an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016), Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the Isabella Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). In a statement for the New American Poets series, she says of her work, “I hope the poems are songs sometimes. I want the poems to ask questions. To engage other people. To promote compassion.” Girmay is also the author of a collage-based picture book, changing, changing (George Braziller, 2005). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches and lives in New York City.

Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School, and has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and of several other writers’ conferences across the country. She lives in New York City.

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Other Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:38:49 -0400 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-27T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other Sigrid Nunez and Aracelis Girmay
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2018-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13272008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Gerardo Sámano Cordova & Elinam Agbo (September 28, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55381 55381-13722988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Poetry and Prose from second-year MFA candidates

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Other Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:24:42 -0400 2018-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other Museum of Art
Mark Webster Reading Series (September 28, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53772 53772-13459407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends—a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Gerardo Sámano and Elinam Agbo.

Gerardo Sámano is a writer from Mexico City.

Elinam Agbo was born in Ghana and moved to the United States when she was ten. She is a recipient of the 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2017 Les River Fellowship for Young Novelists. Her work has appeared in Baltimore Review.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:17:15 -0400 2018-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Mark Webster Reading
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC
New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs (September 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 53176-13272022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article, “Michigan Homecoming,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend, many of which were not published in the original article, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article, these photographs of fervent fans, strolling couples, alumni making their annual pilgrimage, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.

These photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:58:04 -0400 2018-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lisa Larsen, Untitled, 1947, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith in memory of our mentors Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Sawyer, 2017/2.225
Storytime at the Museum (September 29, 2018 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53773 53773-13459408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 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. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it. Children ages three to six are invited to join Storytime. 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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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:21:53 -0400 2018-09-29T11:15:00-04:00 2018-09-29T12:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Storytime
Tunde Olaniran (September 29, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53573 53573-13410065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition Beyond Borders: Global Africa, UMMA presents Tunde Olaniran in concert. Olaniran’s music and performance embodies what it means to be beyond borders, blending dance, electro, hip-hop, and rock. His debut album, Transgressor (2015), “feel[s] like it was recorded by a dissonant, flourishing collective, rather than a man from Flint [...] whose only vocal training is choir practice to boot” (Pitchfork). He was named NPR's Top Artist to Watch at SXSW 2017 and has been praised by The New York Times, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Noisey, Afropunk, and countless others.

The exhibition will be open after the performance.

This concert is a standing-room performance, and is co-sponsored by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies, Spectrum Center, and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

This event is FREE. However A TICKET IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. Click "Get Tickets" or call the Michigan Union Ticket Office at 734-763-8587 to see if tickets are available.

Photograph by Jordyn Belli

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Performance Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:11:04 -0400 2018-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Tunde
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2018-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Beyond Borders: Global Africa (September 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 53175-13271948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery, colonization, migration, racism, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai, Omar Victor Diop, Wangechi Mutu, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.

Lead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Office of Research, African Studies Center, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:59 -0400 2018-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1956-57, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Collection Jean Pigozzi, Geneva, Inv# MA/KE.046.D, © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC