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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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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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CAM is proud to announce that Rise, the popular Grove coffeehouse, will make a second home in the Grand Center Arts District.
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*Online ticket sales will end at 8:00 pm CT on Friday, June 15. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.*
A better reason to stay up late. CAM keeps the doors open until midnight one Friday each season for an exhibition-themed celebration. Inspired by the
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Homegrown, a temporary installation, gathers together the art, printed matter, and ephemera in the collections of St. Louis’s visual arts community.
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Urban Planning: Art and the City 1967–2017, an exhibition of photography, sculpture, and video, explores the social, political, economic, and environmental effects of urban development in the United States.
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Join us for an online edition of our First Friday celebrations, featuring a line-up celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride. Hosted by St. Louis’s own Maxi Glamour, the evening takes inspiration from Liz Johnson Artur’s series of photographs taken at…
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On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, the Washington University in St. Louis chancellor announced in an email to all students the closure of residential housing and a transition to online education in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The university’s decision echoes similar responses from universities nationwide. The announcement came…
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