In honor of Black History Month, this round will feature a selection of the myriad Black artists who have made, and are making, an invaluable impact on the art world. Many have been featured in previous rounds of Art Trivia, so it’s a great time to test how much you’ve learned! As usual, the multiple choice questions will […]
read moreThe University of Arizona Museum of Art’s Spring 2023 Lecture Series draws inspiration from Restored: The Return of Woman-Ochre.
read moreFrom 1933-1957 in the misty Blue Ridge Mountains, Black Mountain College was a hub of experiential education, and became fertile ground for artistic and cultural developments that made a lasting imprint across fields. Incalculable relationships were forged or compounded at BMC between the famed and lesser-known alike: Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Josef and Anni […]
read moreHelen McNeil-Ashton, daughter of Abstract Expressionist artist George McNeil and his art-director wife Dora, is a retired academic, a writer and the current Vice President for the Collection at the Highland House Museum in Truro, Massachusetts. Unless proven otherwise, every child takes their family for “normal” just the way it is. So if you’re raised in a bohemian world […]
read moreIn the late 1970s, a UAMA curator raised a question after seeing a poster of Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Ruhe. The label on the poster stated the work was in a private collection, a strange detail considering the painting was owned by the University of Arizona Museum of Art … or was it? What began as a […]
read moreCarrying on a tradition since 1970, the University of Arizona School of Art and University of Arizona Museum of Art are proud to host the 2023 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at the UAMA and Joseph Gross Gallery. This exhibition is the culmination of the Master of Fine Arts Studio Degree and is presented during a graduate student’s […]
read moreThe Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is a collaborative project born from the mind of self-proclaimed art agitator Karl “Krrrl” Whittaker, who wished to prove that artistic merit exists within the desert of the American Southwest. Krrrl traveled around the region known as the desert triangle, recruiting 29 other artists living and working in Tucson, Albuquerque and El […]
read moreFour things you might not know about “Woman-Ochre” and artist Willem de Kooning by University of Arizona School of Art professor Paul Ivey.
read moreThursday, Dec. 15, 2022 | 5p This month’s theme is what some call “the reason for the season” – giving. Whether gifted from the heart or with an ulterior motive, all of the artworks featured in this round came with a metaphorical bow. As usual, the multiple choice questions will be fun for all trivia lovers (no art […]
read moreThursday, Nov. 3, 2022 | 5:30p If you think of a damaged painting as a sick patient, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre was on life support. Among other things, the painting was rolled up – causing numerous fractures in the paint – after being cut from its canvas and stolen from the UAMA in 1985. This virtual panel discussion […]
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