{"id":142675,"date":"2025-03-07T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=142675"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:46:02","slug":"mathis-gallery-exhibition-demoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/mathis-gallery-exhibition-demoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathis Gallery exhibition: &#8216;Demoted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition featuring research by UWM undergraduate art history students from the Fall 2024 colloquium taught by Associate Professor Richard Leson opens March 13.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings in this exhibit, &#8220;Demoted,&#8221; raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical work.<\/p>\n<p>Demoted opens in the Mathis Art Gallery, on the first floor Mitchell Hall, on Thursday, March 13, with an opening reception 5-7 p.m. featuring remarks from undergraduate co-curators at 5:30 p.m. The exhibition runs through May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Gallery and events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paintings in this exhibit raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"section":[],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[],"class_list":["post-142675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff-announcements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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