Exhibitions
On June 3, CAM launches the second part of Collective Impact, a new partnership with Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB). Building on the introduction of CRXLAB’s work through an exhibition of posters from the Artwork for Equity program, the second half of the season reveals an interactive exhibition…
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The following interview took place prior to the protests over the killing of George Floyd.
What is different now? Are not the racial divisions within our society just more deeply outlined than before? How are attitudes toward stay-at-home mandates based on privilege? Isn’t the expectation of…
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Bethany Collins moved from one part of Chicago to another in March. “Moving day during a pandemic is definitely worse,” she tells me. But her new neighborhood offers a more walkable part of the city and a daily walk has become part of the quarantine regimen. Collins and I laugh…
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Even though CAM has been closed since March, a conversation with Paul Mpagi Sepuya makes me think even more about exhibitions without an audience. Sepuya’s summer survey in St. Louis is now documented in a gorgeous monograph, a selection from thirteen years of the artist’s photographic explorations within…
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Tim Youd knows what he’ll be doing for the next month of COVID. “For me,” he says from his Los Angeles home, “it’s a compulsion to make art, and I’m very grateful to have a chance to devote myself to my compulsion—re-typing one novel for a month.”
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Not long into our phone conversation, Stephanie Syjuco tells me: “My parents are in the Philippines, a developing country that’s going to be hit very hard. Working on my own artwork, right now, it feels rather insignificant. This sounds like a harsh way to say it, but that’s…
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Liz Johnson Artur takes photographs of people as a means toward connection. As viewers of the photographs, we connect with the people in the pictures. These connections are powerful—one human being, a group of human beings, linked to each other in the space of a museum. A…
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Courtney Paolicchi is a Visitor Services Associate (VSA) at CAM who is passionate about contemporary art, long walks, and Florence and the Machine. A native of St. Louis, Courtney studied art history in McGill University in Montreal, and returned home to pursue a career in museum work. With…
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Contemporary art, by its very nature, encourages unconventional materials. Past exhibitions at CAM have included race cars, money, thousands of tiny succulents, and suspended Tillandsia air plants. One of the Lawrence Abu Hamdan installations currently at the museum, Earwitness Inventory, includes a non-descript metal…
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Events
CAM Young Friends visit the Pulitzer Arts Foundation for a special tour of Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma led by Curator Tamara Schenkenberg.
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma is the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States in twenty years and comprises more than thirty sculptures and installations. Hatoum’s work often references domestic…
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