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 especiall...

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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 Africa...

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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 Stieg...

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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, ho...

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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....

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