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The UWM Department of Art History welcomes Kim Sajet, the new director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, to campus as a guest lecturer on April 24 from 5:30-7 p.m. at Curtin Hall, Room 175.<\/p>\n

Sajet will talk about the relevance of art history and address key questions: If art history is fundamentally the study of visual communication, why has it struggled to communicate its own purpose? What is art history for?<\/p>\n

In this talk, Sajet suggests that the answer lies not in defending old hierarchies or rehearsing inherited canons, but in reimagining the purpose of studying art itself \u2014 as a way of creating community and advancing a shared sense of global humanity.<\/p>\n

For more details, go to this Department of Art History webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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