St. Louis Art Events

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Chance Aesthetics Washington University-Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum	Every week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 18 until Mon., January 4	University City	Art Free Events
What happens on canvas may not be what was intended to happen. The artist is a conduit channeling the creative impulse, sure, but mistakes happen. And many artists will tell you that a key element of making something is recognizing when an accident yields better results than the initial concept... More >>

Michael Byron: Cosmic Tears Saint Louis University-Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., September 13 until Sun., December 13	St. Louis - Midtown	Art
From a distance, the paintings appear to be satellite images of landscape, or a rain-spattered surface. Barely visible is a yellow kernel or two, or is it a person? Move closer and what you thought was landscape is now an abstract wash of color, and the tiny object still defies easy... More >>

Japonisme in the Graphic Arts Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 2 until Sun., December 13	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art Free Events
Beautiful and exotic, Japan has been a subject of fascination for westerners ever since Commodore Perry "opened" the country to trade in the 1854. Nineteenth-century artists fell especially hard for the culture, and the Japanese color woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the... More >>

Backpack Blues Sheldon Concert Hall	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 25 until Sat., February 6	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art
The students of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School have channeled those back-to-school blues into their work with the new exhibit Backpack Blues. Designed as a companion piece to the simultaneous Legends of St. Louis Blues exhibit, the student work takes a decidedly multi-media... More >>

Prethunderdome White Flag Projects	Every week Wednesday, Saturday from Wed., November 4 until Sat., December 19	St. Louis - Forest Park Southeast	Art Free Events
With 2012 on the horizon — the reputed end date of the world according the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, as if you didn't know — doomsday theories abound in popular media. And White Flag Projects (4568 Manchester Avenue; 314-531-3442 or www.whiteflagprojects.org ) has just the... More >>

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 11 until Sun., January 3	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art Cheap Thrills
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there is an unwieldy title, but it tells you everything you need to know about the new group exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org) --... More >>

The Twelfth Hungarian Cartoon Festival: A Dialogue of Cultures Saint Louis University-Museum of Art	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 23 until Sun., December 20	St. Louis - Midtown	Art Free Events
The 27 member nations of the European Union have 27 different cultures and almost as many languages. And while 2008 was the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue — it's always good to have a nice chat now and then, you know — in which language were the countries expected to... More >>

Philip Slein: The Art Crowd Schmidt Contemporary Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 23 until Sat., November 28	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art Free Events See & Be Seen
Philip Slein runs a nifty art gallery on Washington that exhibits work by the most intriguing of contemporary artists, both national and local. But long before he dirtied his hands with commerce, Slein was an artist. And so for his first exhibition in seven years, Slein addresses the world he... More >>

Roberley Bell: Inside Out Laumeier Sculpture Park	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 9 until Sun., January 10	Crestwood/ Sunset Hills/ Sappington/ South Lindbergh	Art Free Events
Roberley Bell's artwork toys with the disconnect between how humanity perceives our control over the natural world. Her Flower Blobs, beautiful assemblages of miniature flowers that approximate gently distended spheres or free-floating dollops, touch on our relentless need to landscape and... More >>

Famous Fictional Villains Mad Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 6 until Tue., December 1	St. Louis - Soulard/Benton Park	Art Free Events
While most of the good people in the world are against villains, we've decided we're for some evildoers, at least the fictional ones. Just think about it: Books and movies would be so boring if we had to rely only on comic relief and touching moments. Of course, the Diane Keaton of today would... More >>

Munny Show 4.0 Star Clipper	Daily from Fri., October 2 until Fri., December 4	Delmar/ The Loop	Art Free Events Pop Culture
Adult life holds far too few creative opportunities for most of us, now that those kindergarten cubbies have given way to adult workday cubicles, enforced nap times have been replaced with an afternoon coffee, and Play-Doh and macaroni necklaces have given way to Blackberrys and Twitter. If... More >>

Asma Kazmi Webster University-Cecille R. Hunt Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 13 until Fri., December 18	Webster Groves	Art Free Events
From a young age we're taught not to stare at disabled people. It's rude to stare at anyone, but our irrepressible human curiosity makes it difficult not to take a longer look at anyone or anything that is different. On a recent visit to New Delhi, India, artist Asma Kazmi looked very closely... More >>

Urban Alchemy: Gordon Matta-Clark Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts	Every week Wednesday, Sunday from Sun., November 8 until Sat., June 5 more dates/times	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art
The building has a long history of being an artistic object, but few artists have attempted to use them as a medium. Gordon Matta-Clark was like few artists. In the same manner that Renaissance artists used vivisection to understand the hidden beauty of the human body, Matta-Clark wielded a... More >>

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Asian Art Collection Saint Louis Art Museum	Daily	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art

The Eleanor Turshin Glass Collection Samuel Cupples House	Daily	St. Louis - Midtown	Art

Daily Tours Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 1:30pm	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art Children's Events Tours

Docent-Led Tours of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts	Every week Wednesday, Saturday, 2:00pm	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art Tours

Family Sundays Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Sunday, 1:00pm-4:00pm	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art Children's Events Tours

Gallery Talks Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Friday, 6:00pm more dates/times	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art Lectures

Alumni Showcase I St. Louis Community College-Meramec	Daily from Fri., November 20 until Thu., December 17	Kirkwood	Art Free Events

Robert Irwin White Flag Projects	Wed., December 9, 5:00pm-7:00pm	St. Louis - Forest Park Southeast	Art Libations

Brother Mel: A Lifetime of Making Art Marianist Galleries	Sun., December 13, 2:00pm-6:00pm	Kirkwood	Art Literary Events

Vito Acconci White Flag Projects	Wed., January 20, 5:00pm-7:00pm	St. Louis - Forest Park Southeast	Art Libations

Robert Ryman White Flag Projects	Wed., February 10, 5:00pm-7:00pm	St. Louis - Forest Park Southeast	Art Libations

Louise Bourgeois White Flag Projects	Wed., March 10, 5:00pm-7:00pm	St. Louis - Forest Park Southeast	Art Libations