Chazen Museum of Art, Madison arts organizations host screenings of Art:21

Five Madison arts organizations have come together to present community screenings of the Peabody Award–winning biennial series "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century."

"Art:21" is the only prime-time national television program focused exclusively on contemporary art.

Season 5 features the episodes Compassion, Fantasy, Transformation, and Systems.

During October, the Chazen Museum of Art, along with Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), and Wisconsin Academy’s James Watrous Gallery, in conjunction with the Madison Arts Commission and Overture Center for the Arts, will screen all four hour-long episodes. Contemporary arts experts will lead open discussions following the screenings.

These community events offer art lovers accessible and social occasions to learn about and discuss the works, insights, and methods of contemporary artists.

The schedule is available here. 

For more about the series visit: www.pbs.org/art21 

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Year-long series: "Supernatural Presences in East Asian Culture"

This academic year will feature a year-long series of interdisciplinary events - "Supernatural Presences in East Asian Culture."  All events are open to the campus community and the public.

As part of the Year of the Humanities, this series will explore manifestations of the miraculous and the demonic in the cultures of Korea, Japan and China. 

Upcoming events include a community reading group at the Madison Public Library as well as public lectures and film screenings. The series culminates with ritual performance by Daoist masters, rarely seen outside of China.  Students may also earn course credit under a Directed Study rubric for taking part in the events. 

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Workshop offered to middle, high school teachers: "The British in India: Art, Culture and Society"

Five-piece Tea Service, Madras, ca. 1876. Collection of Paul F. Walter. Photograph by Richard P. Goodbody. Courtesy Wallach Art Gallery.

The Center for South Asia is offering a workshop for middle and high school teachers in conjunction with "Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj" an exhibit currently on display at the Chazen Museum of Art.

The workshop, "The British in India: Art, Culture and Society", aims to question the impact of the British on the social production of arts and music, as well as their influences in Indian social customs, legal history and mapping of the subcontinent. 

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Chazen breaks ground on 81,000 sq. ft. expansion

On May 1 – with fanfare from the UW Marching Band – the Chazen Museum of Art broke ground on an 81,000-square-foot expansion. Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Chancellor Biddy Martin, Dean Gary Sandefur, Tim Erdman, Simona and Jerry Chazen, and Russell Panczenko spoke about the value of the museum to the community and of the arts to our everyday lives.

The museum’s expansion will allow the Chazen to better serve the community across campus and around the state. It will open in Fall 2011 with versatile and elegant galleries and gathering spaces to fulfill the mission of enriching the human experience with visual art and art education.

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