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Monday, November 7

Chakaia Booker: 'Shaved Portions'
07 Nov

Chakaia Booker is renowned for her artistic practice that pushes the limits of abstraction through the use of her signature material—discarded rubber tires...

Ervin Scholars: Honor the Legacy
07 Nov

The John B. Ervin Scholars Program honors the memory of a nationally renowned educator and community leader who believed in giving students a first-rate...

Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood
07 Nov

Leaving China is an exhibition of work by accomplished artist James McMullan that focuses on watercolor paintings about his childhood during World War II....

Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste Land
07 Nov

The Waste Land by St. Louis native TS Eliot was published in 1922 and forever changed literature. The Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste...

Ron King, Hick, Hack, Hock, 1995. Julian and Hope Edison Collection, Washington University Libraries
07 Nov

The Miniature Museum is a new series of exhibitions in which books are displayed as sculptural objects in a custom-built dollhouse museum. The first...

Stories From World War II
07 Nov

The "Stories From World War II" exhibition brings together stories from the Second World War told through special collections. A variety of personal accounts...

The Divided City Spotlight - St. Louis International Film Festival
07 Nov

The Divided City spotlight film lineup focuses on the racial divide in St. Louis and other U.S. cities, and offers an international perspective by...

Monday, November 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM
Valuable Dregs: Research in the William Gaddis Papers
07 Nov

Novelist William Gaddis famously shunned the spotlight and dismissed attempts to tie his private life to his creative work. However, Gaddis also kept an...

Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols: Selections from the Collection of Tim Huskey
07 Nov

Tim Huskey has been collecting Cardinals baseball memorabilia since he was five years old, when he stood in line to get an autograph from his favorite...

Glaser Gallery Exhibit: 'How did we get hear? Historic hearing devices, 1800-2000'
07 Nov

The hearing aids we are familiar with today are both tiny and mighty, but they weren’t always that way. This exhibit highlights the long history of hearing...

Pause @ Graham Chapel
07 Nov

The Office for Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life will be holding space in Graham Chapel. The Chapel will be open for reflection, prayer or a moment of...

Monday, November 7, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Ambivalent Pleasures: Advertiser Content in American Art
07 Nov

This installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Bringing together modern and contemporary...

Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions
07 Nov

Katharina Grosse is internationally celebrated for her large-scale, on-site works that she paints across built and natural environments. To date, less focus...

Monday, November 7, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Katharina Grosse: On the Edge of Something Else
07 Nov

The renowned contemporary artist Katharina Grosse, whose exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions is on view...

Mark Allendorf, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
07 Nov

Mark D. Allendorf, Chemistry '80, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories Hydrogen has the highest gravimetric energy density of any energy...

Faculty Book Talk: Tazeen M. Ali
07 Nov

The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam analyzes how American Muslim women assert themselves as religious actors in the U.S. and...

Monday, November 7, 2022 | 4:30 PM
Panels on Life: A Conversation about Weathering Change
07 Nov

Panels on Life is a new series bringing faculty, staff, and students together to reflect deeply on human experiences and emotions. Our upcoming panel will...

Monday, November 7, 2022 | 5:00 PM

Monday, November 7