NAN Students Make MoneyBags
Artist and former New Art in the Neighborhood (NAN) student Stan Chisholm recently led a NAN workshop that introduced students to a collaborative project he has been working on for the past year....
View ArticleNAN Students Explore Autobiographical Art
Artist Sean Landers, whose work is in the Contemporary’s current exhibition, Sean Landers: 1991-1994, Improbable History, recently led a New Art in the Neighborhood session. His workshop focused on...
View ArticleThe Contemporary Gets Its LibraryThing Going
I’m Michael Goodwin, and I have been working as an intern at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Recently, I began the detailed project of revamping the Contemporary’s library. My goals were to...
View ArticleMake room for Dada!
We’re just two days away from Dada Ball 2010: Dada Rocks with Decades! Full-access tickets have sold out and the wait list is growing. But we do have tickets for the infamous After Party! Come mix and...
View ArticleGreat Rivers Biennial 2010 Opens
The fourth iteration of the Great Rivers Biennial opened Friday night, April 30. The Biennial is a collaboration between the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation designed to...
View ArticleThree Days in New York with Sean Landers
Sean and I, fountainside, in Washington Square Park Last week I spent three days working with Sean Landers in his Chelsea studio, preparing the design for his upcoming catalog. The major monograph,...
View ArticleWet Paint
It is summer time for the Contemporary. Which means we get to start on projects that we normally can’t because it is too disruptive for our visitors or simply we don’t have the time or the person...
View ArticleOpen Studios Recap
If you missed Open Studios this year, don’t worry, there is always next year. A previous blog post already mentioned the Preview Party which had a record breaking 720 people in attendance. Special...
View ArticleAlex Elmestad Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
Congratulations to Alex Elmestad, CAM’s Manager of Public Programs and Interpretive Technology, on the opening of his artist-in-residence exhibition, Institutional Memory, at the Luminary Center for...
View ArticleHas the World Changed or Have I Changed?
Jeremy Deller, Has the World Changed or Have I Changed?, 2000. Performance, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany. Courtesy the artist. © Jeremy Deller I first met Jeremy Deller at his studio in London in 2000....
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