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A Generous
Join
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Gift
from the
Permanent
Baker/Pisano
Collection
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New Class of
Meet
Docents Joins
Amy Gilman
the Museum
Curator
of at the
PLATO
Education
Chazen
Anne Lambert
to Retire
Russell Panczenko, Director
Chazen Museum of Art
10–11
12–13
feet
in length),
Dine had to
a new in studio
means
to be a university
art rent
museum
the in
Paris
where
he
usually
spends
six
to
seven
twenty-first century, and how can we both grow
months each year. The work will be completed
the institution in a healthy way, and sustain that
in February of 2017. The panels will then be
growth into the future.
shipped to Madison (by sea, because of their
size) in April and May, and then installed
I hope you will meet me at the Chazen soon.
permanently in June 2017. The subject of the
murals is particularly suitable to this gallery as
it houses our collection of Greco-Roman
antiquities. Although quite different
aesthetically from the work that Ikeda just
completed, the Dine mural will be spectacular.
Amy
Gilman,
Director
For
this,
too, stay
tuned.
Chazen Museum of Art
8–9
10–11
long in the making. Inspired by Dine’s so-called
Glyptotek Drawings (1987–88), which were
shown in Madison in the mid-1990s,
You will continue to see many familiar
arrangements for the Chazen murals were only
programs,
we Given
are also
evaluating
finalized
in but
2013.
the actively
immensity
of the
how we
do of
the the
work
of the
museum,
what it
mural
(two
panels
measure
twenty-six
New York and the Seattle Museum of Art, both
of which have significant holdings of Japanese
The retirement of a long-time director is always a
art, came specifically to meet the artist and view
moment
for reflection
and both
change,
and that is
his progress.
While here,
curators
expressed
for has
what
they the
saw.
doubly
true great
when enthusiasm
the director
shaped
We, too, here at the Chazen are not immune to
institution as profoundly as Russell Panczenko
Rebirth’s allure and would readily welcome it
shaped the Chazen during his thirty-three years
back to Madison. After all, it was created here
here.
I am grateful
for his
leadership
in overseeing
and contains
delightful
visual
references
to
Madison
and Wisconsin.
Careful
the
transformational
growth
of the examination
museum.
of the 130-square-foot drawing rewards the
Every day I look out my office window at people
viewer with images of Bucky Badger, Octopus
crossing
the a bridge
between
our
two
remarkable
Car Wash,
large red
W, and
the
dome
of the
State Capitol,
other local
references.
buildings,
and among
I am reminded
of his
legacy. Will
it return? Stay tuned.
The Chazen Museum of Art began its
In the meantime, in distant Paris, France, Jim
institutional
life working
almost fifty
We are
Dine has been
on a years
large ago.
four-panel
mural for the
Chazen.
Based
on the birthday
artist’s year
beginning
to plan
for an
incredible
drawings of ancient sculpture, the
in 2020, not only for the museum, but for the
commissioned mural will be installed in the
Elvehjem
building,
both I of
were dedicated
ceiling area
of Gallery
in which
the Conrad
A.
and
opened
to the public
on September
1970.
Elvehjem
Building.
This too
has been a 12,
project
friends,
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