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CAM invites museumgoers to share personal reflections for StoryCorps in the summer-long program After SHELTER

Jul 1

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Art at Home: Remix Portrait

Jun 29

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Contemporary Art Museum to reopen with health safety measures

Jun 23 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Contemporary Art Museum will reopen July 9 with ongoing exhibitions

Jun 22 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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CAM reopens Thursday, July 9, 2020

Jun 22

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Five art-focused activities parents can do with their kids at home

Jun 18 / St. Louis Magazine

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Rachel Youn

Jun 17

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CAM Fall/Winter exhibitions include Great Rivers Biennial 2020 featuring new work by three award-winning artists in St. Louis

Jun 10

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Stories of Resistance explores forms of resistance across the world

Jun 10

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CAM Fall/Winter exhibitions feature new works by Ebony G. Patterson exploring the garden as symbol

Jun 10

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14 artists on the importance of portraying queer love, including Jess T. Dugan and Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Jun 10 / Artsy

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“Tell Me a Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True”: New works on paper by Toyin Ojih Odutola

Jun 8 / Juxtapoz

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Joan Blase Goodson, CAM founding board member, dies at 94

Jun 8 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Kahlil Robert Irving

Jun 4

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Derek Fordjour honors disenfranchised communities in his vibrant, layered work

Jun 4 / Artsy

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Kahlil Robert Irving and Richard Munaba: Safetyfirst&Fantasies_BLOCKCHAIN

Jun 1 / Wesleyan University Center for the Arts

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Stories of Resistance artist Guadalupe Maravilla is centering mutual aid and indigenous medicinal practices

Jun 1 / Hyperallergic

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Art at Home: Collaging the Self

May 29

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Ebony G. Patterson: The interactivity of visual appeal

May 19 / Chicago Gallery News

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Why Katherine Bernhardt’s freewheeling paintings attract collectors of all kinds

May 19 / Artsy

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Bethany Collins

May 14

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Four CAM exhibition artists among Tiffany Foundation Grant winners: Kahlil Robert Irving, Deana Lawson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Stephanie Syjuco

May 14 / Artsy

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Art at Home: Automatic Drawing

May 8

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

May 8

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Get to know artists intimately with these new monographs: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

May 5 / Elephant

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Essential Arts with Best Arts Online: Tim Youd Retypes The Tunnel

May 2 / Los Angeles Times

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Art at Home: Code Quilting

May 1

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Art at Home: Tim Youd Retypes The Tunnel

May 1 / LA Weekly

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LA artist plans to connect with St. Louis novelist William Gass—by typing in the garage

Apr 30 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Tim Youd

Apr 28

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Editors’ Picks: 12 events for your virtual art calendar this week

Apr 28 / Artnet

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A new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude

Apr 28 / The Guardian

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Tim Youd will retype William Gass’ mammoth ‘The Tunnel’ on livestream

Apr 27 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Tim Youd retypes William Gass’s The Tunnel

Apr 27

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Art at a distance: Museums, galleries and fairs are quiet, but artists find ways to keep creating

Apr 23 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Former DJ-in-residence Syrhea Conaway on her music

Apr 23 / Alive

Art at Home: Fiber Weaving

Apr 20

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Sought-after Guggenheim Fellowships go to Sanford Biggers, Zoe Leonard, Sky Hopinka, more

Apr 16 / ARTnews

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Marina Zurkow

Apr 16

Art at Home: Paper Sculpture

Apr 15

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New Art in the Neighborhood artist Deja Brewer-Moore awarded college credit at Webster University through CAM-University Credit Program

Apr 13

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In the Middle of the Mess

Apr 10

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Former Great Rivers Biennial award winner Lyndon Barrois Jr. and Wyndi DeSouza receive Sam Fox School 2020 Stone & Deguire Award

Apr 9 / The Source

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Christine Corday

Apr 8

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Derek Fordjour considers the precariousness of shelter

Apr 6 / Hyperallergic

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Art at Home: Colored Pencil Blending

Apr 6

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Art at Home: Blind Contour Drawing

Apr 5

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Art at Home: Paper Collage

Mar 31

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Stephanie Syjuco

Mar 31

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Pining for penguins? Missing your museum? St. Louis attractions reach out online

Mar 30 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Art at Home: The Thirsty Bird Flip-book

Mar 26

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Portraits that capture three decades of black culture

Mar 24 / Huck

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Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Liz Johnson Artur

Mar 24

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya, the photographer conjuring digital cruising culture

Mar 23 / Another Man

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Art at Home: Embroidery with Janie Stamm

Mar 21

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Where the Magic Happens

Mar 19

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New in 2020: African American art books explore the work of Ming Smith, Noah Davis, Horace Pippin, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and more

Mar 19 / Culture Type

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Museums around the world are sharing their most Zen art on social media to help people relax

Mar 18 / Real Simple

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St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary museum close to all visitors

Mar 17 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is closed until further notice

Mar 16

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How two nontraditional St. Louis arts programs are engaging students in learning

Mar 16 / St. Louis Magazine

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CAM public programs and events are postponed until further notice

Mar 13

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From Art Camp to CAM

Feb 28

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L.A.’s arts community drives Angelinos to the polls with the For Freedoms Congress

Feb 28 / L.A. Weekly

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Liz Johnson Artur’s photographs capture the vibrancy of black youth culture

Feb 27 / Artsy

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The art hidden in the world’s largest nuclear reactor

Feb 26 / Forbes

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Project Lost Island

Feb 21

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CAM Ambassadors

Feb 14

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis opens SHELTER exhibit

Feb 13 / Ladue News

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Create, CAM’s 2020 Gala, honors Alison and John Ferring, April 10, 2020

Feb 10

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Shining a Spotlight

Feb 6

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Meet James Biko, CAM’s new DJ-in-residence

Feb 6 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Liz Johnson Artur brings Dusha show to CAM

Jan 31 / St. Louis American

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CAM announces First Friday DJ-in-residence James Biko

Jan 30

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Arts intel: Derek Fordjour SHELTER at CAM

Jan 27 / Air Mail

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See this now: Liz Johnson Artur’s Dusha at CAM

Jan 24 / St. Louis Magazine

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Beyond white walls: CAM exhibition examines ‘what we all seek’

Jan 17 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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CAM awarded $75,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for 2020 fall exhibition Stories of Resistance

Jan 16

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CAM Gets Dirty

Jan 16

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan is awarded the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media

Jan 6 / Artdaily

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CAM awarded $25,000 for education programs from The Bellwether Foundation

Jan 6

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Eye-catching 2020 exhibitions

Jan 3 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Preview: Derek Fordjour: SHELTER at CAM

Jan 2 / Artforum

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Sanford Biggers among ten best New England museum exhibitions

Dec 27, 2019 / Boston Globe

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Stephanie Syjuco’s Rogue States at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Dec 19, 2019 / ASIA: Art Spectacle International Asia

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Ebony G. Patterson: … to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil?

Dec 19, 2019 / Brooklyn Rail

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In Living Color

Dec 19, 2019

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CAM Spring Exhibitions open Friday, January 17, 2020

Dec 18, 2019

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Best of 2019: Ebony G. Patterson at Perez Museum, Miami

Dec 12, 2019 / Hyperallergic

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Turner Prize winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan receives 2019 Edvard Munch Art Award

Dec 11, 2019 / Artforum

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AP Portfolio Day

Dec 10, 2019

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After sharing Turner Prize win, Lawrence Abu Hamdan takes another top art award

Dec 10, 2019 / ARTnews

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Turner Prize awarded four ways: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani

Dec 4, 2019 / The Guardian

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GRB artists Tim Portlock (2020) and Jill Downen (2004) selected for State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges

Dec 4, 2019 / Crystal Bridges Blog

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Three CAM exhibiting artists selected for RAC InSITE award

Dec 4, 2019 / Regional Arts Commission

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An Afternoon with Mark Twain

Dec 2, 2019

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I is for Institute: Conversation with Wassan Al-Khudhairi

Dec 2, 2019 / ICA Philadelphia

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Openings: Stephanie Syjuco

Nov 22, 2019 / Artforum

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Chamber Project St. Louis explores Beauty at CAM

Nov 22, 2019 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Conceptually Speaking

Nov 12, 2019

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National Veterans Museum designed by CAM architect Brad Cloepful

Nov 11, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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At Tufts, Sanford Biggers takes aim at violence against African Americans

Nov 8, 2019 / Boston Globe

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Silent Songs

Nov 5, 2019

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Art and Home Economics

Oct 31, 2019

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Art museum targets endowment with $12M fundraising campaign

Oct 29, 2019 / St. Louis Business Journal

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CAM announces major gifts, $12 million campaign

Oct 28, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis launches Create: The CAMpaign, a $12 million fundraising initiative to increase endowment, fund innovation, and make capital improvements

Oct 28, 2019

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Paul Sepuya’s deconstructed gaze

Oct 25, 2019 / British Journal of Photography

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Best things to do this week: Open Studios STL

Oct 18, 2019 / Riverfront Times

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Meet Rachel Youn, one of the artists of Open Studios STL 2019

Oct 17, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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Marina Zurkow’s video The Thirsty Bird appears on CAM’s facade for Street Views

Oct 16, 2019

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Derek Fordjour creates a site-specific, immersive installation for his first solo museum exhibition at CAM

Oct 16, 2019

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Liz Johnson Artur’s intimate photographs of the African diaspora come to CAM

Oct 16, 2019

Headlines

St. Louis International Film Festival announced including two free films at CAM

Oct 15, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Jennifer Steinkamp’s still-life drives us to ask: Can art be both beautiful and critical?

Oct 14, 2019 / COBO Social

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Interviews: Ebony G. Patterson on dress and dignity

Oct 4, 2019 / Artforum

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‘It’s like manifesting ghosts’: Artist Stephanie Syjuco on how textiles can conjure up America’s unsettling past

Oct 4, 2019 / artnet news

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Best St. Louis museum 2019

Oct 3, 2019 / Riverfront Times

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Fast-rising artist Derek Fordjour set a new auction record at Phillips New York

Oct 1, 2019 / Culture Type

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Four exhibitions bring African American narratives to London

Sep 30, 2019 / Financial Times

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The quiet introspection of Amy Sherald’s new portraits

Sep 30, 2019 / Hyperallergic

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What to see in New York galleries: Kahlil Robert Irving

Sep 27, 2019 / New York Times

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Building community access across difference through the arts

Sep 27, 2019 / Gephardt Institute

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Drink in Art: Rogue States Edition

Sep 26, 2019

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More than 120 artists invite the public into their studios for Open Studios STL, October 19–20

Sep 26, 2019

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CAM receives federal grant to expand art education program

Sep 26, 2019 / St. Louis Public Radio

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The Artsy Vanguard 2019 includes CAM artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Derek Fordjour, and Ebony G. Patterson

Sep 24, 2019 / Artsy

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A St. Louis artist creates an exquisite, devastating memorial for a future in which trees are extinct

Sep 23, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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An exhibit at CAM uses film-set flags, blocked images, and Mark Twain’s conscience as a critique of immigration anxiety

Sep 20, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan penetrates an inaccessible prison using sound

Sep 19, 2019 / Art in America

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The Amy Sherald Effect

Sep 16, 2019 / The New Yorker

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CAM receives $193,753 federal grant to expand local art education programs

Sep 16, 2019

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Can an underwater desert restore Jamaica’s aging coral?

Sep 15, 2019 / Vice

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Stephanie Syjuco deconstructs photography and colonialism in CAM show

Sep 13, 2019 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Amy Sherald’s Shining Second Act

Sep 12, 2019 / New York Times

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Modern Art Notes Podcast with Stephanie Syjuco

Sep 10, 2019 / Modern Art Notes Podcast

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CAM’s latest exhibits delve into nuances of race, nationality, mourning, more

Sep 6, 2019 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya opens at Blaffer Art Museum

Aug 29, 2019 / Art & Education

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St. Louis magazine fall arts guide features CAM “not to miss” exhibitions

Aug 26, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States highlighted in RFT fall arts guide

Aug 22, 2019 / Riverfront Times

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Lines and Shapes

Aug 19, 2019

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The Noise of the Feather Dusters

Aug 15, 2019

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A Lesson in Color

Aug 8, 2019

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Perishable Art

Jul 31, 2019

Press Room

CAM’s New Art in the Neighborhood receives Bayer Fund grant

Jul 29, 2019

Headlines

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Reconstructing Silence / The Torture of Silence

Jul 25, 2019 / The Brooklyn Rail

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Teen Museum Studies presents exhibition by Margaret Keller

Jul 24, 2019

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Call for artists: Open Studios STL 2019

Jul 22, 2019

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Bethany Collins named finalist for Artadia Chicago Awards 2019

Jul 19, 2019 / ARTnews

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Behind the scenes of CAM’s Tool Shed exhibit

Jul 17, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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Alebrijes of St. Francis

Jul 17, 2019

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Amy Sherald, Michelle Obama’s portraitist, readies her New York debut

Jul 16, 2019 / Vogue

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Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States explores the complexities of American culture

Jul 3, 2019

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Bethany Collins: Chorus explores the intersection between race and culture

Jul 3, 2019

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Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade presents Voyeristico on CAM’s facade for Street Views

Jul 3, 2019

Headlines

Three artists receive Great Rivers Biennial award

Jul 2, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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CAM and Gateway Foundation announce winners of Great Rivers Biennial 2020

Jul 1, 2019

Headlines

Partnering to provide arts access: CAM

Jun 28, 2019 / Keep Art Happening: Arts and Education Council

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Deconstructed bodies: the photography of Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Jun 21, 2019 / It's Nice That

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Five questions: Wassan Al-Khudhairi

Jun 19, 2019 / Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast

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Finalists selected for Great Rivers Biennial 2020

Jun 13, 2019

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CAM First Friday activities June 7

Jun 6, 2019

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CAM names Dail Chambers summer teaching artist-in-residence

Jun 6, 2019

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Online art auction benefits CAM exhibition and education programs

Jun 4, 2019

Headlines

CAM’s summer shows explore the capacity of sound and the power of silence

Jun 1, 2019 / ALIVE Magazine

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CAM 2019 Benefit Auction on Artsy

May 28, 2019

Headlines

Staycation Sensation: Spending A Weekend In St. Louis

May 22, 2019 / Forbes

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Patternmaker: The Wild, Recursive Art of SVA Alumnus Katherine Bernhardt

May 21, 2019 / Visual Arts Journal

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Q&A: Intimate portraits by Paul Mpagi Sepuya revise notion of ‘dark rooms’

May 21, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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New CAM shows fulfill every challenge of contemporary art

May 20, 2019 / The St. Louis American

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The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Week

May 17, 2019 / Riverfront Times

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Sound and the absence thereof at CAM

May 17, 2019 / HEC

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Best Bets: Contemporary Art Museum exhibitions

May 16, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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CAM, artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and other artists and art institutions join fight against nudity restrictions on Instagram and Facebook

May 16, 2019 / ARTnews

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Vashon through a Lens Preview on Fox 2

May 13, 2019 / Fox 2

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Chief Curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi receives 2019 Award for Excellence

May 7, 2019 / ARTnews

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CAM architect Brad Cloepfil to design University Art Museum at Penn State

May 6, 2019 / Penn State News

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan selected as Turner Prize finalist for the exhibition Earwitness Theatre, co-commissioned by CAM

May 1, 2019

Headlines

Previews | PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

May 1, 2019 / Artforum

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Turner Prize 2019 shortlist includes Lawrence Abu Hamdan

May 1, 2019 / Tate

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya on The Conditions, 2019

Apr 23, 2019 / Artforum

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Tool Shed, a project co-produced by Eric Ellingsen, invites community participation to create sound portraits of CAM’s surrounding neighborhoods

Apr 11, 2019

Headlines

Goings on about town: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Team gallery, New York

Apr 8, 2019 / The New Yorker

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya mines the queer history of the portrait studio

Mar 29, 2019 / The New Yorker

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CAM at 15

Mar 20, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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Project: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Mar 19, 2019 / Artforum

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The St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum hosts its biennial Dada Ball & Bash

Mar 8, 2019 / Vogue

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CAM’s 2019 Dada Ball & Bash raises $363,000 to support exhibitions and education programs

Mar 6, 2019

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A major survey of the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya explores race, sexuality, and identity within intimate photographic portraits

Mar 5, 2019

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CAM presents an international co-commission by Beirut-based artist and “private ear” Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Mar 5, 2019

Headlines

Paul Mpagi Sepuya exhibition selected as one of the most promising museum shows

Mar 5, 2019 / ARTnews

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Call for artists: Great Rivers Biennial 2020

Mar 4, 2019

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CAM’s notorious Dada Ball & Bash fundraiser features a live set by avant-funk music artist Fusilier

Feb 27, 2019

Headlines

These women artists are transforming gallery walls with incredible murals

Feb 19, 2019 / Artsy Magazine

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CAM to receive major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Feb 13, 2019

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CAM announces 2019 exhibitions

Feb 8, 2019

Headlines

Syna So Pro slides into her new role as CAM DJ-in-residence

Feb 1, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Musician Syna So Pro aims for the stars in CAM residency

Jan 31, 2019 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Syna So Pro wants to bring St. Louis together through her CAM residency

Jan 30, 2019 / Riverfront Times

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CAM announces new DJ-in-residence for 2019

Jan 24, 2019

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First Lady portrait artist Amy Sherald comes to Spelman

Jan 22, 2019 / Atlanta Journal Constitution

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A ‘constellation’ contained in CAM: Art exhibition shows compressed shapes as RELATIVE POINTS

Jan 18, 2019 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Christine Corday wants you to touch every one of her 10,000 pound sculptures at CAM

Jan 15, 2019 / St. Louis Magazine

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CAM’s Dada Ball & Bash fundraiser mixes space odyssey with space oddity, March 2, 2019

Jan 8, 2019

Headlines

2018 Great Rivers Biennial award-winner Addoley Dzegede receives Joan Mitchell Foundation grant

Jan 4, 2019 / The Oregonian

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A curving line of steel in the sky to mark Moscone Center expansion

Jan 2, 2019 / San Francisco Chronicle

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From the Archives: Sanford Biggers on “Juggling Cultural Signs,” in 2000

Dec 21, 2018 / ARTnews

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The Big Freedia Concert at CAM was Ass-tastic

Dec 18, 2018 / Riverfront Times

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iParty: Big Freedia at CAM

Dec 17, 2018 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Big Freedia promises big energy at CAM show

Dec 13, 2018 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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William Downs co-winner of 2018 Atlanta Artadia Awards

Nov 21, 2018 / Artforum

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Beijing-based artist Guan Xiao presents first solo museum project in US at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Nov 20, 2018

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Oliver Laric’s 2000 Cliparts to be projected on CAM’s facade for the spring Street Views exhibition

Nov 20, 2018

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Christine Corday presents monumental site-specific sculptures and paintings commissioned by CAM for her major exhibition RELATIVE POINTS

Nov 20, 2018

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Amy Sherald makes shortlist for Apollo magazine Artist of the Year

Nov 19, 2018 / Apollo

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‘Boom for Real’ shows how artists emerged from a gritty New York City

Nov 8, 2018 / KPLR11

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From Flicker to Flame

Nov 8, 2018 / Ladue News

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Big Freedia is the 21st century’s Ambassador of Freedom

Oct 30, 2018 / National Public Radio

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Monument to Michael Brown Revealed at St. Louis’ Contemporary Art Museum

Oct 19, 2018 / Riverfront Times

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Artist Sanford Biggers’s sculpture honoring Michael Brown added to CAM exhibition

Oct 19, 2018

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Thank You for Doing This

Oct 10, 2018

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New Art in the Neighborhood and Vashon High School students participate in For Freedoms

Oct 8, 2018

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For Freedoms Town Hall at CAM promotes civic engagement

Oct 1, 2018

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CAM presents Open Studios STL, October 6–7

Sep 20, 2018

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CAM breaks attendance records for 2017–18

Sep 6, 2018

Headlines

‘A challenging roommate’: CAM show reveals early artistry of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat

Sep 5, 2018 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Sanford Biggers exhibition features power figures made in memory of victims of police violence

Sep 4, 2018 / The St. Louis American

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Big Freedia in Concert at CAM

Sep 4, 2018

Headlines

Who can curate a professional art museum exhibit in St. Louis? Teens can.

Sep 2, 2018 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Jessica Baran on Amy Sherald

Sep 1, 2018 / Artforum

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A Look at Basquiat Before Basquiat in a Traveling Exhibition

Aug 28, 2018 / Widewalls

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Vashon through a Lens

Jul 6, 2018 / HEC-TV

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Story Artist

Jun 28, 2018

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Big Freedia Is Taking Over

Jun 22, 2018 / PAPER Magazine

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William Downs creates Sometimes it hurts, a site-specific ink wash drawing, on CAM’s 60 foot-long Project Wall

Jun 19, 2018

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Sanford Biggers exhibits sculpture, painting, and video installation at CAM

Jun 19, 2018

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Basquiat Before Basquiat comes to CAM

Jun 19, 2018

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Danish art collective SUPERFLEX presents film installation European Union Mayotte at CAM

Jun 19, 2018

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Experimental filmmaker Jennifer West to exhibit next Street Views on CAM’s facade in fall

Jun 19, 2018

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Call for artists: Open Studios STL, October 6–7, 2018

Jun 5, 2018

Headlines

Animation artist Sarah Paulsen explores ‘The Invention of Whiteness’ at CAM

May 31, 2018 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Claudia Comte works only for her work

May 30, 2018 / Berlin Art Link

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Specific about People

May 30, 2018

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Amy Sherald on her “gentle presentation of black identity” and more

May 24, 2018 / Hyperallergic

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Amy Sherald’s painting of Michelle Obama went viral. But she’s no overnight success.

May 22, 2018 / Elle

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Wall Patterns

May 18, 2018

Headlines

Obama portrait artist Amy Sherald is worthy of acclaim beyond her celebrity moment

May 18, 2018 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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CAM presents Art Up Late: Louie Louie, a St. Louis-themed after-hours dance party, Friday, June 15

May 17, 2018

Headlines

After Obama portrait, Amy Sherald seeks to ‘reclaim time’ for African Americans

May 17, 2018 / St. Louis Public Radio

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A sense of ennui pervades William Downs’ moody drawings

May 15, 2018 / Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make work ‘to rest your eyes.’

May 14, 2018 / Washington Post

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Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory

May 7, 2018 / The New Yorker

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Vashon through a Lens Shows Off the Work of Student Photographers

May 4, 2018 / St. Louis Magazine

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Vashon Through a Lens Features Student Subjects—and Photographers

May 3, 2018 / Riverfront Times

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Vashon High School students exhibit photography at UrbArts this Friday

May 2, 2018

Headlines

Amy Sherald at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

May 2, 2018 / Artforum

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Checking for Dents

Apr 26, 2018

Stories

Can You Find Toto?

Apr 12, 2018

Press Room

Rise Coffeehouse makes a second home at CAM.

Apr 2, 2018

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Rise Coffee House Will Open Second Location Inside CAM

Mar 29, 2018 / Riverfront Times

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Pop art greets Lambert travelers

Mar 29, 2018 / The Intelligencer

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Swiss artist Claudia Comte creates new site-specific installation, Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags), on CAM’s Project Wall.

Mar 26, 2018

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The eighth Great Rivers Biennial features new work by St. Louis artists

Mar 26, 2018

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Amy Sherald presents new and recent work for her first major solo museum exhibition at CAM

Mar 26, 2018

Headlines

How the Dana Schutz Controversy—and a Year of Reckoning—Have Changed Museums Forever

Mar 6, 2018 / Art Net

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Rare Photos of a Young Basquiat in his East Village Home

Feb 15, 2018 / i-D Magazine

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An Intimate Look at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Early Days

Feb 8, 2018 / Village Voice

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announces 2018 exhibitions

Jan 30, 2018

Headlines

Basquiat Show Coming to Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in September

Jan 30, 2018 / Riverfront Times

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Influence without the Anxiety

Jan 26, 2018

Headlines

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis revs up with spring exhibitions

Jan 18, 2018 / St. Louis Post Dispatch

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The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers

Jan 15, 2018 / The New Yorker

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A Morning at Vashon High

Jan 12, 2018

Press Room

CAM Awarded $25,000 Grant Through PNC Arts Alive to Support St. Louis’s Museum Pathways Project, Diversity Fellowship Program

Jan 12, 2018

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DRIVE: CAM’s 2018 Gala

Jan 4, 2018

Headlines

Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories

Nov 27, 2017 / HyperAllergic

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Salvatore Scarpitta: Racing Cars

Nov 7, 2017

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Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse

Nov 7, 2017

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Tim Youd: St. Louis Retyped

Nov 7, 2017

Headlines

Amy Sherald, official portraitist for Michelle Obama, will have her first major solo exhibit next spring at CAM

Oct 31, 2017 / St. Louis Magazine

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The Perfect Woman to Paint Michelle Obama

Oct 28, 2017 / The New York Times

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Alexis Cosse Named Chair of CAM Board of Directors

Oct 26, 2017

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After a Late Start, an Artist’s Big Break: Michelle Obama’s Official Portrait

Oct 23, 2017 / The New York Times

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Stay up late tonight with CAM

Oct 20, 2017 / St. Louis Magazine

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Eric Donte Kicks Off Tour and New EP at Contemporary Art Museum Tonight

Oct 20, 2017 / Riverfront Times

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Why the Obamas’ Portrait Choices Matter

Oct 16, 2017 / The New York Times

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Mickalene Thomas intentionally expresses universal beauty of women of color

Oct 12, 2017 / The St. Louis American

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Mickalene Thomas talks “Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities”

Oct 10, 2017 / St. Louis Magazine

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An architect designed a calmer restaurant. It was very stressful.

Oct 8, 2017 / The New York Times

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CAM Introduces After-Hours Party Series – Art Up Late

Sep 28, 2017

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CAM Presents Open Studios STL

Sep 27, 2017

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Bowie, Bach, and Bebop: How Music Powered Basquiat

Sep 22, 2017 / New York Times

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CAM awarded $20,000 Dana Brown Charitable Trust grant

Aug 31, 2017

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CAM and Gateway Foundation Announce Winners of the Great Rivers Biennial 2018

Jun 30, 2017

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Tim Portlock’s video 11th Street Symphony showing on CAM’s facade

May 12, 2017

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and Renegade STL partner to offer Urban Planning tours

May 11, 2017

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Wassan Al-Khudhairi named Chief Curator of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

May 1, 2017

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Urban Planning: Art and the City 1967–2017 explores the transformation of American cities through the perspectives of 23 major international artists

Mar 21, 2017

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KAWS: FAR FAR DOWN features new work by the internationally renowned, multifaceted artist

Mar 21, 2017

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Creative Stimulus Awards Exhibition features three local artists selected for the annual prize

Mar 21, 2017

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An Evening With Legendary Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams

Mar 1, 2017

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A Teenage Jean-Michel Basquiat As You’ve Never Seen Him

Feb 18, 2017 / W Magazine

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DADA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATED AT DADA BALL & BASH Biannual fundraiser generates nearly $350,000

Feb 17, 2017

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The Jean-Michel Basquiat You Haven’t Seen

Feb 13, 2017 / New York Times

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CAM’s Dada Ball & Bash Celebrates Centennial of Provocative Art Movement with Biannual Fundraiser on February 11.

Dec 27, 2016

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Paintings and Drawings by Nicola Tyson On view January 27–April 16, 2017

Nov 21, 2016

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New and Recent Works by Deana Lawson On view January 27–April 16, 2017

Nov 21, 2016

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New site-specific mural by Katherine Bernhardt On view January 27–April 16, 2017

Nov 21, 2016

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Clouds and The Poster Project presents by Louis Cameron

Nov 21, 2016

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In the Face of White Male Privilege Run Amok, a Plea for Artistic Responsibility

Sep 28, 2016 / Hyperallergic

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Controversial artwork to remain at CAM

Sep 26, 2016 / St. Louis Public Radio

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Statement on Kelley Walker: Direct Drive

Sep 26, 2016

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Uproar continues over racially charged exhibit at Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis

Sep 24, 2016 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Kelley Walker Statement to the CAM Community

Sep 23, 2016

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Artist’s Depiction of Police Brutality Sparks Boycott at St. Louis Museum

Sep 23, 2016 / Art Net

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Boycott of Controversial CAM Show Reveals St. Louis’ Fraught History with Race, Art

Sep 22, 2016 / St. Louis Magazine

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Appropriated Images of Black People Spark Boycott of St. Louis Museum

Sep 22, 2016 / Hyperallergic

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CAM STL exhibit sparks demand for boycott by artist/activist Damon Davis

Sep 19, 2016 / St. Louis American

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The Black Rep & Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis join over 40 international arts organizations to present the 30th anniversary of The Colored Museum

May 31, 2016

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Museum premiere of video work by Lili Reynaud-Dewar On view May 6–August 14, 2016

Apr 28, 2016

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Artwork by 2015–16 New Art in the Neighborhood Students On view May 6–July 10, 2016

Mar 22, 2016

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Second transformational green installation in CAM’s courtyard On view May 21–August 14, 2016

Mar 22, 2016

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Museum debut of work by celebrated artist Mark Bradford On view May 6–August 14, 2016

Mar 22, 2016

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Seventh edition of CAM’s Great Rivers Biennial features new work by St. Louis artists On view May 6–August 14, 2016

Mar 22, 2016

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