LUMA’s Turning 10!
Thank You, Chicago!
A decade sounds like a long time, but when you are accomplishing great
things and realizing big goals, 10 years fly by!
10 YEARS . . . of Exhibitions Exploring the Spiritual in Art
Including Andy Warhol’s
Silver Clouds
,
Caravaggio: Una Mostra
Impossibile
,
HEAVEN+HELL
,
Rodin: Magnificent Obsession
,
Pilgrimage
and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam
,
Ten Thousand Ripples
,
The
Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
,
Truth is In the Telling:
The Passover Story
, and of course, the Martin D’Arcy, S.J. Collection of
medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Art.
10 YEARS . . . of Collaboration
Alliance Française de Chicago, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts, Big Shoulders Schools, Center for Catholic School Effectiveness,
Changing Worlds, Consulate General of France in Chicago, Consulate
General of Italy in Chicago, Edward Gorey Trust, Fowler Museum
at UCLA, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Kantor
Foundation, Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus, Museum of
Contemporary Religious Art (Saint Louis University), Partners In
Health, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
10 YEARS . . . of Progress
Including growing as a new museum in the cultural mix of Chicago,
while becoming one of the youngest museums in the U.S. to receive
accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums.
10 YEARS . . . More to Look Ahead
Including an additional gallery space by 2017, building the endowment,
naming the museum, traveling LUMA collections, reuniting the
Life of
Christ
paintings by Mattius Stomer, and growing LUMA’s membership
and community.
Images (details): Charmion von Wiegand,
The Kundalini Lotus
, 1968–69, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Michael
Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York; Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi),
Medusa
, ca. 1598, oil on canvas on wooden
shield. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Qes Adamu Tesfaw,
Saint Gigar Slapping King Herod
, ca. 1990, paint on cloth.
Collection of Michigan State University Museum, 7557.42; Edward Gorey,
B is for Basil assaulted by bears
from
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
, pen and ink, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963, © The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust.
All rights reserved; Janet McKenzie,
Jesus of the People
, 1999, oil on canvas; Indira Freitas Johnson,
Ten Thousand
Ripples
, © 2009 Indira Freitas Johnson; Andy Warhol’s
Silver Clouds
in Castelli Gallery, 1966, © Nat Finkelstein.
