Chance Aesthetics
Chance Aesthetics addresses chance as a key compositional principle of modernism from the beginning of the 20th century through the early 1970s. Featuring more than sixty artworks by over forty avant-garde artists from across Europe and America, including Jean Arp, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, and Niki de Saint Phalle, among many others.
Metabolic City
Metabolic City explores visionary concepts by three internationally known groups of architects and artists: the British collective Archigram; the Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, an early member of the Situationist International; and the Japanese Metabolists, whose members include Fumihiko Maki, architect of the Kemper Art Museum.
Fall 2009 Opening Celebration
Friday, September 18
4:30 pm: Member Preview
7-9 pm: Public Reception
Metabolic City Walkthrough
Saturday, September 19, 2 pm
Chance Aesthetics Panel Discussion
Wednesday, September 23, 5 pm
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