The first issue of Provoke magazine, published in Tokyo in November 1968, declared that “we as photographers must capture with our own eyes the fragments of reality that can no longer be grasped through existing language.” With this manifesto, Provoke encapsulated the energy of a time in which established conventions were discarded, and a new generation experimented with fresh outlooks and new technologies that shattered assumptions of what a…
Events
![Masatoshi Naito, [a street performer swallowing a snake], in Ken, no. 2 (pp. 22-23), October 1970, magazine, 9 x 7 ½ x 1/2 inches (23 x 18.9 x 1.3 cm). Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Manfred Heiting Book Collection. Photo: Paul Hester, Hester + Hardaway Photographers.](/sites/default/files/public/styles/views_listings/public/events/2025/05/self-and-others-japanese-photography-after-1968/self-and-others-naito-ken-mfah.jpg?itok=2gycdosR)
Tue, Aug 19 - Sat, Dec 20 2025, All day
UK Art Museum
Free
Tue, Sep 9 2025 - Sat, Feb 7 2026, All day
The artists in this exhibition let go of their impulse to control compositions by allowing chaotic elements of chance, circumstance, and contingency to influence their processes. Drips, scratches, pours, and bleeds move across the surfaces of their artworks seemingly at random, and yet clear forms emerge. Our imaginations might find sunsets, mountains, waterfalls, city streets, or human figures in these images, but these apparitions soon…
UK Art Museum
free
Tue, Sep 9 2025 - Sat, Feb 7 2026, All day
The re:museum exhibition enters its eighth edition with re:museum ∙ RE:FORM, continuing to promote a welcoming engagement with art while offering a peek behind-the-curtain at Museum operations. This latest re:museum applies “reform” as a thematic umbrella to exhibit artworks that employ the concept across multiple meanings of the term. re:museum ∙ RE:FORM artworks delve into concepts of transformation, iteration, activism, and emulation. Works…
UK Art Museum
Free
Tue, Sep 9 2025 - Sat, Feb 7 2026, All day
A (Very) Brief History of Music takes as a given that any attempt to tell the history of a discipline in one exhibition is impossible. So, we've decided to present a mix of works that reference traditional ballads, jazz, rock and roll, and punk in the Museum's smallest gallery space. The installation is anchored by Catherine Irwin's trompe l'oeil sculpture of a telephone pole with band posters stapled to it, along with photographs of …
UK Art Museum
Free
Tue, Sep 9 2025 - Sat, Feb 7 2026, All day
In 1966, the George Eastman House of Photography in Rochester, New York, hosted a pivotal exhibition curated by Nathan Lyons called Toward a Social Landscape. The slim, accompanying catalog was shared amongst photographers who were especially encouraged by Duane Michals’s observation that “when a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.” The UK…
UK Art Museum
Free
Tue, Sep 9 2025 - Sat, Feb 7 2026, All day
This exhibition highlights Fragmentations, a series of etchings created by conceptual artist Agnes Denes. Born in Budapest in 1931, raised in Sweden, and later educated in the United States, she began displaying her work in the early 1960s. Her artwork discussed the socio-political climate of the time and paved the way for future artists and generations to express themselves in new aesthetic forms. Rooted in geometry and patterns, the print…
UK Art Museum
free
Sat, Sep 13 2025, 7:30pm
Mary Halvorson (guitar), Adam O’Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
Guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has been described as “a singular talent” (Lloyd Sachs, JazzTimes), ”NYC’s least-predictable improviser” (Howard Mandel, City Arts), “one of the most original jazz guitarists of our time” (Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily), and “one of today’s…
Singletary Recital Hall
$29 Adults / $13 Students, FREE for UK Students
Fri, Sep 19 2025, 7pm
Staten Island native Sal Vulcano is best known for creating and starring in truTV’s long-running hit “Impractical Jokers,” and for “The Misery Index” on TBS. In addition to performing as part of The Tenderloins Comedy Troupe to sold-out arenas, Sal founded the No Presh Network in 2020, hosting "Hey Babe!” and “Taste Buds” podcasts. Sal’s debut solo comedy special ‘Terrified’ was released in May 2024 on YouTube. Not recommended for young…
Singletary Concert Hall
Platinum Seating: $117.75 , Individual Tickets: $45.75 - $66.75 by location
Thu, Oct 30 2025, 7pm
Rend Collective’s "Folk!" Tour is a celebration of joy, community, faith, and authentic connection. As the band shares, “Folk! is the sound of best friends living life and working out their faith together.” This tour embodies that spirit, inviting audiences to join in heartfelt worship and joyous music. With new music and a brand new tour, it’s a brand new season here at Rend Co. The “Folk!” Tour is more than just a concert; it’s an opportunity…
Singletary Concert Hall
$82 Deluxe Experience | $45 Early Entry | $30 GA
Fri, Nov 14 2025, 8am - 2pm
In addition to being admitted to UK, a successful audition is required to be declared a dance major. Applications for admission to the University of Kentucky, as well as application deadline and materials information, are available on the UK Admissions site. To learn more about what to expect and wear please see the BA in Dance page.
Audition Reservations are made in the apply.uky.edu application system. Login on the…
Fine Arts Building
Fine Arts Building, Room 117
Audition Registration Required
Fri, Nov 14 2025, 7pm
With nearly 4 million followers across his social media, Josh Johnson was recently called “the funniest guy on the internet” by WIRED and is a star on the rise. He is an Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comedian, actor, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. Johnson is currently a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy & Peabody Award-winning program The Daily Show where he was previously a writer for the…
Singletary Concert Hall
Individual Tickets: $40 - $61 by location
Fri, Feb 13 2026, 8am - 2pm
In addition to being admitted to UK, a successful audition is required to be declared a dance major. Applications for admission to the University of Kentucky, as well as application deadline and materials information, are available on the UK Admissions site. To learn more about what to expect and wear please see the BA in Dance page.
Audition Reservations are made in the apply.uky.edu application system. Login on the…
Fine Arts Building
Fine Arts Building, Room 117
Audition Registration Required
Tue, Mar 10 - Sat, Aug 8 2026, All day
The UK Art Museum collection includes an eclectic group of paintings, prints, textiles, and sculptures that use repeated shapes to create a sense of driving rhythms, syncopations, and melodic phrases—from a ninth-century BCE Greek vase to a painting by University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Arturo Alonzo Sandoval. Two of the artworks on view—Ellsworth Kelley’s Dark Blue and Red and Theodoros Stamos’s Double Orange Sun-Box—were donated to the…
UK Art Museum
Free