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Artist Kahlil Robert Irving is a St. Louis native with two solo exhibitions in museums right now. His exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis is like an archeological dig into a contemporary urban landscape. -
California-based artist Nicole Miller asked 22 St. Louisans what it feels like to be alive. She combined their answers with lasers and film of circus performers. -
![Ai Weiwei and museum curator Sabine Eckmann examine "The Odyssey," a massive frieze in his exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum. In the foreground is a detail of "Forever Bicycle," a sculpture made from 720 bicycles. [11/8/19]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2c88530/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x3343+0+329/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkwmu%2Ffiles%2F201911%2FJDG_aiweiwei_02.JPG)
When does a mirror selfie become high art? For artist and political activist Ai Weiwei, it happened in 2008 when he photographed himself inside an… -
Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum once sat at the edge of a parking lot, shielded from passing traffic by a row of trees. Following… -
![A central feature of the newly opened Weil Hall is a vertical garden. The building is part of a $280 million expansion to Washington University's campus. [9/26/19]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d093b47/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1141+0+62/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkwmu%2Ffiles%2F201909%2F092619_JDG_washuexpansion_01_0.jpeg)
Washington University students and faculty are using new classrooms and workspaces this fall, now that $280 million in construction projects are nearly… -
St. Louis’ Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will reopen this fall with a big artistic bang: an exhibition by celebrated Chinese artist and political… -
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University is celebrating a decade at its permanent home with a first showing of works from its entire… -
Drone warfare has spread from the battlefields to TV and movie thrillers. And now it’s spread to the fine art world. The Kemper Art Museum at Washington… -
To escape ‘black dog’ of depression following military defeats, Winston Churchill turned to paintingDefeat is not one of the primary words associated with Sir Winston Churchill’s career. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953, he gave the… -
A new gift of more than 50 artworks will expand the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum’s collection of politically conscious contemporary art. “Most of the works…
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![Ai Weiwei and museum curator Sabine Eckmann examine "The Odyssey," a massive frieze in his exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum. In the foreground is a detail of "Forever Bicycle," a sculpture made from 720 bicycles. [11/8/19]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/66745ee/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x3343+0+329/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkwmu%2Ffiles%2F201911%2FJDG_aiweiwei_02.JPG)
![A central feature of the newly opened Weil Hall is a vertical garden. The building is part of a $280 million expansion to Washington University's campus. [9/26/19]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/38aaf1d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1141+0+62/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkwmu%2Ffiles%2F201909%2F092619_JDG_washuexpansion_01_0.jpeg)
