University of Missouri Events Calendar

Exhibition: The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West (5/29/2008 - 5/30/2010)

Thu, 29 May 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	5/29/2008
End Date:	5/30/2010	End Time:	Midnight

MU Campus - Pickard Hall
Room: Museum of Art and Archaeology

This multicultural exhibition features a selection of luxury arts from the Museum’s diverse collections. Like painting and sculpture,these beautiful objects played an important aesthetic role as they communicated social, political, religious and cultural information about the patron. The realm of the decorative arts is a vast one, involving objects of every shape and material imaginable. By bringing together objects from China, Europe, India, Japan and the United States from the Early Modern period to around 1900, this show explores a wide variety of cultural aesthetic preferences and societal practices in relation to The Fine Art of Living. Ongoing from May 2008.

Exhibition: Missouri Through Lens and Palette (9/6/2008 - 12/24/2008)

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/6/2008
End Date:	12/24/2008	End Time:	Midnight

MU Campus - Pickard Hall
Room: Museum of Art and Archaeology

The Museum of Art and Archaeology presents Missouri Through Lens and Palette. Artists and documentary photographers have recorded the people and lands of small-town Missouri throughout the twentieth century. While photographers consistently bring the subject into sharp focus, their approaches vary as do the styles adopted by painters. By bringing images from these dissociated realms together, this exhibition explores the differing visions of the ever changing and sometimes vanishing reality of the Missouri heartland.

Exhibition: William Hogarth’s Marriage à la mode (10/3/2008 - 2/1/2009)

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	10/3/2008
End Date:	2/1/2009	End Time:	Midnight

MU Campus - Pickard Hall
Room: Museum of Art and Archaeology

The Museum of Art and Archaeology presents the exhibition William Hogarth's Marriage à la mode.
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an important British painter and engraver. In 1745 he published a series of prints entitled Marriage à la mode, which satirizes a fashionable marriage of convenience between members of the aristocratic and working classes. Contemporary drama and life provided Hogarth with the subjects for the six scenes, which delve into the contemporary debate on marital ethics. At the same time, the prints are a remarkable record of English culture, providing detailed information about eighteenth-century etiquette, costume, material culture, architecture, art collecting, and aesthetics.

Reading Day (12/12/2008)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	12/12/2008	All Day
End Date:	12/12/2008

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EXHIBITION: 100 Years of Election Cartoons: 1908–2008 (12/12/2008)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	12/12/2008	Start Time:	9:00 AM
End Date:	12/12/2008	End Time:	4:30 PM

MU Campus - Ellis Library
Room: State Historical Society

100 Years of Election Cartoons: 1908–2008

In conjunction with the University of Missouri’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the School of Journalism, The State Historical Society of Missouri presents the exhibition 100 Years of Election Cartoons: 1908–2008.

This exhibit features original editorial cartoon drawings critiquing and commenting on a century of presidential elections in the United States. Among the artworks represented are original cartoons by such celebrated artists as Daniel Fitzpatrick, Bill Mauldin, and Tom Engelhardt.

EXHIBITION:Engelhardt on Elections (12/12/2008)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	12/12/2008	Start Time:	9:00 AM
End Date:	12/12/2008	End Time:	4:30 PM

MU Campus - Ellis Library
Room: State Historical Society

From 1962 to 1997, Thomas Engelhardt drew over 8,000 editorial cartoons for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a body of work that can be viewed as a challenge to the status quo and, in many instances, a weapon of attack against social injustice. Engelhardt dealt with tough political issues such as money and influence, smear campaigns, and “spin,” as evidenced in elections that debated the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the environment, poverty and crime in U.S. cities, and the actions of state and local government. Engelhardt on Elections will be on display until January 17, 2009.

Lloyd L. Gaines Commemoration (12/12/2008)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	12/12/2008	Start Time:	4:30 PM
End Date:	12/12/2008

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Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center

Join us as we commemorate the United States Supreme Court’s decision ordering the State of Missouri to either admit Lloyd Gaines to the University of Missouri or provide another school of equal stature within the state borders. Sponsored by the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center.