The Haggerty Museum of Art opens two new exhibitions
(Artdaily.org)

The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will open two exhibitions featuring the intersection of language and visual arts. For the Sake of a Single Verse is a body of work by artist Ben Shahn that was inspired by the writing of Rainer Maria Rilke, and The Ariel Poems is the result of a 20th-century collaboration between poets and artists. For the Sake of a Single Verse is a portfolio of twenty-two lithographs from the Haggerty Museum of Art’s collection created by artist Ben Shahn. The prints illustrate a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke’s only novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910). This semi-autobiographic novel tells the story of a destitute college student from an aristocratic Danish family living in Paris in the early 1900s. The book made a profound and lasting impression on Shahn. Although Shahn first read the