Archived - Shows And Events

June 2-July 30, 2017 - This exhibition will feature visual interpretations of objects in the Kelsey Museum’s collection, demonstrating how they have stimulated innovation in the practice of a contemporary artist, James Cogswell. The exhibition will coincide with the artist’s window project to be installed in April of 2017, on the exterior of the south side of the Upjohn galleries. Cosmogonic Tatto...

February 19–April 30, 2017 - This exhibition documents this crucial transition using the rich primary source materials,amulets, gems, surgical instruments, as well as ancient and medieval texts available. Ancient methods for healing the body, mind, and spirit ranged from the miraculous, the talismanic, and the religious to the sophisticated knowledge of Greek medicine. In the Renaissance, however,...

October 28, 2016 - March 12, 2017 - This exhibition describes their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Stei...

October 21, 2016 - January 22, 2017 - The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from UMMA’s African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with nation...

October 15, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - In this exhibition the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. ...

October 14, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - Visually stunning, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging,Europe on Paper: The Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran exhibition features forty-seven works on paper—drawings, prints, and watercolors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century—that focus on the expressive capacities of line and its ability to articulate the seen and unseen.

August 26, 2016–January 8, 2017 - This exhibition shows in our society, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives, we learn as much or more from our flaws and failures as we do from our successes. Less than Perfect celebrates failure and the lessons it teaches. Featuring objects that span more than 2000 years and four continents, this exhibition explores the stori...

August 8 - October 30, 2016 - Richly introduced in this exhibition are works by ceramic artists emerging in the late 1960s and the early 1970s in the town of Mashiko, two hours north of Tokyo by train. Fascinated by the simple aesthetic, the craftsmanship, and the makers’ unassuming personalities and ways of life, Holmes visited many kiln towns to photograph and interview the artists and collect c...

July 29 – November 27, 2016 - The exhibition is reminiscent of and, indeed, provoked by the raw, often homophobic and misogynistic rants of 1980s standup comedy acts—particularly Eddie Murphy’s controversial 1983 concert film Delirious. Having seen Murphy’s act in person, Bradford noted the seismic shift in 1980s comedic vernacular in which racist and sexist commentary entered the mainstream. In B...

July 12 - October 16, 2016 - The exhibition describes through speculative experiments and conceptual drawings, Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression, including, for example, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper, with its ability to mask, transform, or animate a space, is also a prominent element in her work. Her p...