Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a guided journey through artworks that illustrate nature’s transformative power to inspire wonder, awe, and romance, while also revealing the complex histories that shape the landscapes depicted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists. Come with someone special or enjoy an inspirational moment for yourself. Led by student educators, the Museum’s public tours […]

This concert is a presentation of works by Asian American composers, performed by St. Louis Symphony Orchestra violinist Seul Lee and cellist Kimberly Jeong. From the ancient rain cycles of Indian raga to the folk dances of rural China, the meditative stillness of the Mongolian desert, and the charged rhythm of contemporary Korea, each offers […]

After the gallery conversation, participants will move to Bixby Hall for a hands-on zine-making session with Aggie Toppins, artist and associate professor in the Sam Fox School. Drawing on ideas and themes from the exhibition, Toppins will guide participants through creative methods and techniques for zines-making, encouraging experimentation, storytelling, and personal response. Dinner will be […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Join the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator Sabine Eckmann for a panel discussion with artist Wang Qingsong and collector Larry Warsh on the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China. Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series This panel is preceded by the member and WashU preview at […]

Join us to celebrate the opening of Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China. Presenting more than forty large-scale works by fourteen artists, this exhibition surveys the emergence of conceptual photography in China after 1989, exploring how artists used performance and diverse photographic methods to examine a rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape. Free and […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Join us for an interactive tour of this season’s featured exhibition, Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, which presents more than forty large-scale photographs created by fourteen contemporary artists in China between 1993 and 2006. The exhibition is divided into three interrelated thematic sections—The Presence of the Past, East and West, and […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

“Performing Gestures, Enacting Sites—Gesture and Its Affective, Musical, Performative, and Emotional Iterations Throughout Visual and Performing Arts” This presentation by Monika Weiss, professor of art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and affiliate professor of performing arts in Arts & Sciences, will explore the notion of gesture by focusing on works […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]