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Art as a form of social outrage and other political expression is featured in "Social Context: Art From the Mid-Twentieth Century," a new show at the Madison (Wis.) Art Center. Kathe Kollwitz, whose wrenching depictions of Germany's downtrodden enraged Hitler and became icons among American students in the 1960s, is among the artists featured. Diego Rivera, whose socialist mural work was famously rejected as too Bolshevik for New York's Rockefeller Center, is there as well.
Also at the Center is a show of 16 paintings by University of Wisconsin alumna Jane Hammond that were inspired by the poetry of John Ashbery and offer visual reflections of Ashbery's poetic imagery. Both exhibitions close Sept. 1. The center is located at 211 ...