The exhibit Jan Serr: A Painter’s Photographs of India, featuring her photographs from northern and southern India, opened at The Warehouse on Friday Sept. 13 and will run through Dec. 13, 2019. With a decades-long career exhibiting both nationally and internationally, Milwaukee-based painter and printmaker Jan Serr presents a new body of work in her show. Jan Serr: A Painter’s Photographs of India is Serr’s first solo exhibition dedicated to her photography. Photographs from northern and southern India depict painterly scenes filled with vivid colors and quiet moments. Like the landscapes, still lifes, and portraits she paints, Serr’s eye designs striking images through the lens of her camera. Serr is a graduate and Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received her BA and MFA in painting and drawing. Her work is in public and private collections in the United States

This landmark exhibition of major loans from museums and private collections throughout the world shows how Gauguin used portraits primarily to express himself and his ideas about art. Although he was fully aware of the Western portrait tradition, Gauguin was rarely interested in exploring his sitters’ social standing, personality, or family background, which had been among the main reasons for making portraits in the past. From sculptures in ceramics and wood to paintings and drawings, an extraordinary range of media for a National Gallery exhibition, visitors will see how Gauguin interpreted a specific sitter or model over time, and often in different guises. A group of self portraits in the exhibition, for example, show how Gauguin created a range of personifications including his self-image as Jesus Christ. Together with his use of intense colour and his interest in non-Western subject matter, his approach had a

With approximately 140 works that have rarely if ever been exhibited in Germany, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents the “unknown” Edvard Munch (1863– 1944) at K20. These paintings, prints, and sculptures were selected by Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968). The internationally celebrated author, like Munch himself a native Norwegian, achieved worldwide fame with his six-volume autobiographical novel, which has been translated into more than thirty languages and has received numerous prizes. His decidedly personal point of view opens up a fresh perspective onto a man who was, arguably, the most important representative of the Scandinavian avant-garde of the early twentieth century, while highlighting the continuing relevance of Munch’s concern with the embeddedness of the individual in society. “The exhibition of works by a historical artist follows the guiding principle of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhe