The nearly 1,000 paintings clinging to sliding metal racks create an unexpected collage of subjects and colors in an unassuming storage room on the UW-Madison campus. Then you?re told to look up and notice the giant canvas rolled and suspended from the ceiling ? an acrylic painting that stretches to 17 feet when framed. “You use everything available,” said Russell Panczenko, director of the Chazen Museum of Art, as he leads a private tour of this Secret Place ? the museum?s 4,500 square feet of on-site art storage. Chazen?s storage areas contain millions of dollars of artistic works not on display.
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