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Assistant for Access and Outreach Miriam Valle-Mancilla ’16, will use Meleko Mokgosi’s The Root of African Savages to present on how a viewer’s perception of a artwork can be structured by power dynamics and cultural... more >
A conversation between Curator of Academic Programs, Shalini Le Gall, and Assistant Professor of English Jay Sibara on Glenn Ligon’s use of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son (1955) in the work Untitled (2016),... more >
Professor Ben Lisle and Katz Curator Diana Tuite will discuss Alec Soth’s 2012 video Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree in the context of urban development and the history of its representation.
Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow Andrew Gelfand looks at artists’ responses to the construction of the interstate highway system and the emergence of car culture.
Katz Curator Diana Tuite will offer Tuesday lunchtime tours of the exhibition Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s. Come and learn how Katz worked through the dominance of Abstract Expressionism to create his... more >
Katz Curator Diana Tuite will offer Tuesday lunchtime tours of the exhibition Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s. Come and learn how Katz worked through the dominance of Abstract Expressionism to create his... more >
Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow Justin McCann will discuss how Whistler battled the elements to capture evocative atmospheric conditions in his paintings and pastels of London and Venice.
