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East Gallery
"DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print"
This exhibition celebrates UConn Professor Emeritus of Printmaking Gus Mazzocca’s gift to the Benton of more than 150 prints by Polish artists. The prints came to Mazzocca through the exchange program that he established in 1984 with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. Produced largely during the 1970s and 1980s, the prints provide an opportunity to sample artistic production in Krakow during the Cold War, when Poland became a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Exhibition runs until December 15, 2019.
Center Gallery
"When You Give Millennials a Gallery…"
Curated by Françoise Dussart, Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut and the students enrolled in Anthropological Perspectives on Art in Spring 2019. Coined in 2002, “selfies” have evolved from simple documentations of events to polished curations of self-expression. Students enrolled in Anthropological Perspectives on Art taught by Professor Françoise Dussart explore this question in an exhibition titled When You Give Millennials a Gallery…. In this exhibition, they analyze how museum-selfies create relationships amongst Millennial selfie-takers, artworks, and visitors. This exhibition runs until December 15, 2019.
Balcony
Halt the Hun!: Atrocity Propaganda in World War I
On April 6, 1917, the United States of America declared war on Germany. One week later, the Committee on Public Information (CPI) was established to influence public opinion in support of the war effort. None other than Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl and president of the Society of Illustrators, led the Division of Pictorial Publicity and recruited scores of artists to lend their talents to the fight. The mainstream American press branded Germans as “Huns” after the invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914. This exhibition runs until December 15, 2019.
Gillman Gallery
The Evelyn Simon Gilman Gallery has The Benton’s permanent collection. This gallery includes five centuries of the Benton’s Best, from the Old Masters to Revolutionaries.
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