Becky E. Adamietz-Deo
Manager of Communications
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
In architecture and the visual arts, there is a long tradition of site-specific projects and temporary installations informing subsequent development. St. Louis’ 1,300-acre Forest Park still bears the stamp of the 1904 World’s Fair. The Gateway Mall, a gleam in the eye of civic planners for more than century, today boasts Citygarden, Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch and Richard Serra’s Twain.
Now The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have launched PXSTL, a competition exploring the critical role of the arts and culture in building vital and dynamic communities.
Open to emerging artists and designers currently working in the United States, PXSTL centers on a vacant lot in the heart of Grand Center, St. Louis’ premiere arts and culture district.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
The Progress of Love, is an unprecedented, transatlantic collaboration between The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, The Menil Collection in Houston, and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, that explores the universal emotion of love. The three concurrent but unique exhibitions that make up The Progress of Love constitute a narrative arc, addressing love as an ideal, love as a lived experience, and love as something lost. The Progress of Love exhibition at the Pulitzer specifically explores the end of love and its aftermath through works by the British-Nigerian artists Zina Saro-Wiwa and Yinka Shonibare, MBE, the French artist Sophie Calle, and the American-Jamaican-Nigerian artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi. With inclusion of both African and Western art, the exhibition invites visitors to examine their own ideas about love and its loss.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
August 8, 2012 - In an unprecedented collaboration, arts institutions in three cities and on two continents will join together to explore the changing modes and meanings of love in today's global society, as seen by more than two dozen contemporary artists from Africa and a select few of their counterparts from Europe and America.
From October 2012 through April 2013, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos in Nigeria, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Menil Collection in Houston will each offer distinct but related presentations of The Progress of Love, with a comprehensive schedule of related events and a major publication documenting the exhibition as a whole.
The three concurrent presentations that make up The Progress of Love constitute a narrative arc, embracing love as an ideal, love as a lived experience, and love as something lost.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
ST. LOUIS, MO - July 24, 2012 - The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts announced today the appointment of Gretchen Wagner as curator. Wagner, who is currently assistant curator at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will join the Pulitzer staff October 15. Working closely with director Kristina Van Dyke, Wagner will oversee the Pulitzer's curatorial program, including exhibitions, special projects, and collaborative initiatives. Wagner succeeds Francesca Herndon-Consagra, who served as senior curator from 2008 to 2012.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
ST. LOUIS, MO - June 12, 2012 - Effective July 31, Lisa Harper Chang, MSW, will step down from her position as Community Projects Director of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. In 2007 Harper Chang was appointed by the Pulitzer and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University to oversee this community projects initiative. She played a key role in developing and implementing programs that explored the intersection of social work and art while engaging the local community, area schools and social service agencies, and other art institutions with the Pulitzer’s exhibitions.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
ST. LOUIS, MO - May 30, 2012 - Cinema St. Louis and The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts invite St. Louis-area filmmakers to project their imaginations on the Pulitzer’s world-renowned building by creating short silent films that reflect key elements (domestic spaces and/or moments of epiphany) of the In the Still Epiphany exhibit.
In conjunction with the current exhibition In the Still Epiphany, on view until October 27, the Pulitzer will host an event that showcases videos by local filmmakers. These shorts will be projected on several exterior surfaces at the Pulitzer on Friday, September 21, at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
ST. LOUIS, MO - May 16, 2012 - The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts announces the hiring of two employees: Tamara H. Schenkenberg, Assistant Curator for Special Projects, and Lisa Rimmert, Manager of Communications.
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Friday, March 30, 2012
Francesca Herndon-Consagra has played a critical role at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts over the past 3 ½ years. As Senior Curator, Dr. Herndon-Consagra has been instrumental in bringing fresh insights to the possible relationships between outstanding works of art and our building designed by Tadao Ando. Through the exhibition “Urban Alchemy / Gordon Matta-Clark,” she brought significant works by the artist to St. Louis for the first time and showed them in a context particularly sympathetic to the artist's goals. “Reflections of the Buddha,” as well as "Dreamscapes," brought outstanding scholarly and aesthetic insights to our visitors. We thank Dr. Herndon-Consagra for her many contributions to the Pulitzer and wish her well in her new position as Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, and European Paintings at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. We are certain she will do important, highly valued work there, as she has done for us here in St. Louis. We are in the process of forming a search committee to identify a successor to Dr. Herndon-Consagra, who will depart at the end of April.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
ON VIEW: April 5, 2012 - October 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents Staging Reflections of the Buddha, a series of live theatrical performances for three weekends in February and March. Former prisoners and veterans, who have been trained as actors, will guide the audience through the galleries, moving through the Pulitzer’s current exhibition, Reflections of the Buddha. The project is designed to break down social barriers by establishing common ground between the audience and the actors.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the St. Louis Symphony today announced the programming for The Pulitzer Contemporary Music Festival, Retrospectives and Innovations: A Celebration of 10 Years of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Presented June 14 to 17, 2012 at the Pulitzer and programmed by renowned St. Louis Symphony Music Director David Robertson, the Festival will include three concerts of contemporary chamber music, featuring members of the St. Louis Symphony and a performance by the cutting-edge quartet So Percussion.
Friday, August 5, 2011
The Board of Trustees of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts today announced its unanimous decision to appoint Kristina Van Dyke as Director, following an intensive international search. Ms. Van Dyke, currently the Curator for Collections and Research at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, will begin working full-time at the Foundation on November 7. Joining the Pulitzer as it prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary, she will work closely with Trustees and staff to oversee the exhibitions program, as well as other scholarly, artistic and community-related programming, including the contemporary chamber music series. Ms. Van Dyke succeeds Matthias Waschek, who served as Director of the Foundation for more than seven years.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Reflections of the Buddha is the first loan exhibition of Pan-Asian Buddhist art in St. Louis. It presents over twenty masterpieces from seven important American
collections, including Asia Society, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler
Museum; and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artworks represent a wide swath
of Buddhist cultures dating from the second century CE. Primarily sculptures, these
works come from Afghanistan, China, Korea, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan,
and Tibet.
Monday, March 14, 2011
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts will host a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Dreamscapes, on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.). This panel explores the varied and complex symbolism of dreams from different traditions in Western psychology. The members of the panel will introduce their particular traditions and then interpret some of the artworks in the exhibition.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Every Saturday at 1 p.m., for the duration of the exhibition Dreamscapes (February 11–August 13, 2011), the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents a variety of free public programs for children and adults, including talks, tours, storytelling and art making, which explore the current exhibition in different contexts.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Matthias Waschek, who since 2003 has helped shape the identity of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and secure its place in the front ranks of small American art institutions, will step down as Director, it was announced today.
Friday, February 11, 2011
The Pulitzer's next exhibition, Dreamscapes, opens with a public reception on Friday, February 11, 2011 from 5pm - 9pm.
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce stylus, a project created by installation artist Ann Hamilton in response to the Pulitzer building. Conceived in response to the Pulitzer's mission to be both sanctuary and laboratory, the installation is structured around live acoustic elements and will be punctuated by participatory events which will occur throughout the project.
Monday, June 21, 2010
It is with great sadness that we learned of James N. Wood’s sudden death. The Board and the staff of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts join his family, friends and colleagues in their grief.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Matta-Clark's poetic and daring involvement with the urban fabric did much to represent and reinterpret abandoned buildings and places. Using his work as a springboard for dialogue, the Pulitzer will prepare innovative programs that will help address critically the fate of many of St. Louis's neighborhoods, which are presently filled with unoccupied structures and empty lots. Moreover, by placing Matta-Clark's rough domestic "cuts" into the pristine public architecture by Tadao Ando at the Pulitzer, we hope not only to offer our audiences new ways to think about the artist and the architect, but also to incite questions concerning the social, political and geographical circumstances that give architecture its meaning.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The exhibition, Ideal (Dis-)Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer has officially been extended until October 3, 2009.
Beginning June 24, photographs by Thomas Struth will replace the Old
Master drawings from the Harvard Art Museum in the Lower Gallery.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
The Pulitzer has joined forces with the Harvard Art Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum to present Old Master paintings and drawings from their collections.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
After an international search, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Francesca Herndon-Consagra as Senior Curator. Herndon-Consagra, currently Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum, will assume her position on September 22, 2008.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Flavin Concert Series will be held in relation to the exhibition, Dan Flavin: Constructed Light, and performed by members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Friday, February 1, 2008
The focus of this exhibition is the experience of Dan Flavin's work - sculptural installations composed of mass-produced light fixtures and florescent tubes - within the architecture and shifting natural light of the Pulitzer building.
Friday, July 20, 2007
The newest exhibition at the Pulitzer, Water, was inspired by the watercourt, an integral part of the building's architecture. The exhibition engages the prevalence of water throughout the Pulitzer by addressing the range of responses that water has elicited from modern and contemporary artists.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
The Pulitzer will present a rare screening of Andy Warhol's iconic film Chelsea Girls. Co-organized with Cinema St. Louis, the film will be shown in its original format, with two projections running simultaneously.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The Pulitzer and the Poetry Foundation in Chicago have co-organized an evening of poetry and discussion, featuring the writers Mary Jo Bang, Peter Campion, Geoff Dyer and Raphael Rubinstein. The discussion takes place on April 18th and will begin at 7pm.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
6pm-7pm: Listen as a panel discusses the topic of "Portrait: Artists and Sitters in Contemporary Art" in the Pulitzer's Main Gallery. Afterwards, enjoy an opportunity to discuss the topic further with the speakers, which include professors from a range of St. Louis universities.
7pm - 10pm: Explore the Pulitzer's galleries and engage in a dialogue about the exhibition with student docents from Saint Louis University. Walk across the street to the Bruno David Gallery and view sculptural responses to portraiture created by students from Washington University. Enjoy refreshments in the Pulitzer courtyard and meet students from throughout St. Louis.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The next concert in the Portrait Series at the Pulitzer will be held on January 31st and February 1st at 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm). The program will consist of Credo in US by John Cage and Samuel Beckett, Words and Music by Morton Feldman and will be perfomed by members of the SLSO.
Purchase tickets on the Symphony website (www.slso.org) or call the SLSO box office at 314.534.1700.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
The first performance in the Portrait Concert Series will take place on Monday, November 13th at 7:30pm (doors open at 7:00pm). The program will consist of Visions de l’Amen by Olivier Messaien and will be performed by Peter Henderson on piano I and Jeremy Denk on piano II. Tickets are now available by visiting the Symphony website (www.slso.org) or by calling 314.534.1700.
Friday, November 3, 2006
The Pulitzer celebrates its five year anniversary with the launch of its redesigned website. The site has been completely revamped and will include interactive features such as background on the Pulitzer's construction and mission, in-depth information about our exhibitions and programming, podcasting and much more.
Friday, November 3, 2006
The Pulitzer's new exhibition, Portrait/Homage/Embodiment, opens with a public reception from 6-9pm tonight. This exhibition explores the ways in which modern and contemporary artists have represented individuals or referenced groups of people. In the context of the Pulitzer building, the installation attempts to broaden the viewer's awareness of this subject matter and the creative potential it has to offer. On view are works by Chuck Close, Roni Horn, Medardo Rosso, Doris Salcedo, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and more.
