Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.

Kinkead Pavilion entrance of Krannert Art Museum, 2015. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Krannert Art Museum, Kinkead Pavilion entrance. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Installation image, Encounters: The Arts of Africa at Krannert Art Museum

Encounters: The Arts of Africa, installation view at Krannert Art Museum, 2012. Photo by Chris Brown

Between the Buildings: Art from Chicago, installation at Krannert Art Museum, 2018. Presented as part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art and their presenting partner The Richard M. Dreihaus Foundation. © Board of

Between the Buildings: Art from Chicago, installation at Krannert Art Museum, 2018. © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Krannert Art Museum

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

We are open today from 9 am to 9 pm. Today’s events include Film: Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists at 7 pm.

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion (KAM) connects people and the arts at the University of Illinois. The second-largest general fine arts museum in the state, KAM has a rich collection of fine art from across the globe, from the fourth millennium BCE to the present day.

Kennedy Browne, Real World Harm (Act I), 2018. Still from 360º video for Oculus, 5 minutes. Courtesy of the artists © Kennedy Browne

Oct 4, 2018 through Feb 9, 2019

Kennedy Browne: The Special Relationship

A collaboration of Irish artists Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne, Kennedy Browne’s videos, workshops, and sculptural installations have probed common stories of global capital: the effects on workers of relocating companies, the visionary boyhood narratives of tech company founders, and struggles over privacy in the age of the internet.

Current Exhibitions

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Detail of blue-and-white globular dragon vase (Tianqiuping), Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing (1796–1820) or Daiguang (1820–1850) period. Porcelain with enamel. Gift of the Class of 1908. 1966-14-1

Aug 30, 2018 to Aug 31, 2019

Blue and White Ceramics: An Enduring Global Obsession

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Allen Stringfellow, Street Smarts II, ca. 1990s. Collage and watercolor on paper. Gift of John and Dorothy Gardner. 2014-8-1

Aug 30, 2018 to Mar 23, 2019

Between the Buildings: Art From Chicago

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European and American Painting: Selections from the KAM Collection, installation at Krannert Art Museum, 2019.

Jan 2, 2019 to May 12, 2019

Renaissance to Modern Remix: Highlights from the European and American Art Collection

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Guerrilla Girls (American, active since 1985), Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz from Portfolio Compleat, 1990. Digital print on paper. Museum purchase through the Art Acquisition Fund 2014-13-1.29

Jan 2, 2019 to Jan 31, 2019

Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz

Events

Gladys Nilsson, 1966. (Still from "Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists," 2014.) Courtesy of Pentimenti Productions. Photo: William Arsenault

Screening Jan 24, 7 pm

Film: Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists

Yoga at Krannert Art Museum

Jan 25, 11:30 am

Yoga at the Museum

Yoga at Krannert Art Museum

Feb 1, 11:30 am

Yoga at the Museum

SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production), created by New Media artist Matt Kenyon (swamp.ru)

Talk Feb 7, 5:30 pm

Artist Talk by Matt Kenyon "The Ethics and Aesthetics of Accumulation and Waste"

Voice Reading Series at Krannert Art Museum, 2015.

Performance Feb 7, 7:30 pm

VOICE Reading Series

Yoga at Krannert Art Museum

Feb 8, 11:30 am

Yoga at the Museum

Collection Highlights

Hedda Sterne, Machine Five, 1950. Oil, canvas. Festival of Arts Purchase Fund 1950-7-1

Hedda Sterne, Machine Five, 1950

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Favrile Candle Lamp (detail), 1982-16-6_7. Iridescent glass, hand-wrought bronze. Gift of Willis N. and Louis Bruce 1982-16-6, 1982-16-7

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Louis Comfort Tiffany, Favrile Candle Lamps, 1982-16-6_7. Iridescent glass, hand-wrought bronze. Gift of Willis N. and Louis Bruce 1982-16-6, 1982-16-7

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Favrile Candle Lamps, ca. 1906–18

Gabriele Münter, The Blue Gable, 1911. Oil, canvas. Gift of Albert L. Arenberg 1956-13-1

Gabriele Münter, The Blue Gable, 1911

Mark Rothko, No. 13, 1949. Oil, canvas. Gift of Walter Bareiss 1955-16-1

Mark Rothko, No. 13, 1949

Blue-and-white globular dragon vase (Tianqiuping), Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing (1796–1820) or Daiguang (1820–1850) period. From the Krannert Art Museum collection

China, Blue and White Globular Dragon Vase (Tianquiping), Qing Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing (1796–1820) or Daoguang (1820–1850) period

Rotimi Fani-Kayodé (Nigerian-British, 1955–1989), Dan Mask, 1989. Silver gelatin print, hand-printed, edition 3/10. Art Acquisitions Fund 2012-7-1

Rotimi Fani-Kayodé, Dan Mask, 1989

Detail of mantle with hummingbird design, ca. 100 BCE. Peru, Nasca. Cotton, alpaca wool. Gift of Fred Olsen and the Art Acquisition Fund 1967-29-56

Peru, Nasca, Peruvian Burial Mantle, ca. 100 BCE

Ilya Iosifovich Kobakov. Woman as Fountain: Courtyard Sculpture Project, 1998. Etching. Sheldon Good Family Charitable Foundation 2000-9-1

Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov, Woman as Fountain: Courtyard Sculpture Project, 1998

Barbara Kruger. Untitled (You Rule by Pathetic Display), 1982. Photo offset lithograph, serigraph. 73 x 49 inches. Art Acquisition Fund 1986-36-1.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You Rule by Pathetic Display), 1982

Andy Warhol. Marilyn, 1971. Silkscreen. Museum purchase through the John Needles Chester Fund 1983-8-1

Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1971