Influence without the Anxiety
Jan 26, 2018
“I believe in the democracy of art,” Trenton Doyle Hancock said during his Artist Talk in January. Hancock’s influences are never hidden in his work: the Bible that was central to his upbringing in his Paris, Texas home, comic books, cartoons, video games, Philip Guston, a boyhood imagination that matures…
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis revs up with spring exhibitions
Jan 18, 2018 / St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers
Jan 15, 2018 / The New Yorker
A Morning at Vashon High
Jan 12, 2018
Vashon instructor Tim Jennings and CAM’s Miriam Ruiz busily prepare the art room for the arriving students. “We’ll need the press, please,” Miriam tells Tim as she unlocks a supply cabinet. Two students stand by the door to the classroom, feigning innocence. “Did you two just lock the door?” Tim…
DRIVE: CAM’s 2018 Gala
Jan 4, 2018
DRIVE, CAM’s 2018 Gala, sports a racing theme to benefit contemporary art and art education
Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories
Nov 27, 2017 / HyperAllergic
Salvatore Scarpitta: Racing Cars
Nov 7, 2017
Salvatore Scarpitta: Racing Cars presents a major overview of the late American artist’s racing-themed artwork—drawings, paintings, collages—as well as the largest number of his race cars ever assembled in the U.S.
Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse
Nov 7, 2017
Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse features recurring superheroes and diabolical villains, an ever-evolving array of cosmic mythologies, and outrageous conflicts of biblical and operatic proportions.
Tim Youd: St. Louis Retyped
Nov 7, 2017
Artist Tim Youd retypes books by St. Louis authors in a series of durational performances at CAM and throughout the metro region.