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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.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Mariola Alvarez, and artist Peter Soriano discuss Soriano’s Permanent Maintenance wall drawings. Cosponsored by the Art Department and the Museum.
Associate Professor Gary Green, curator of Turning Back, will discuss the work of Robert Adams and how it takes on the subjects of history, landscape, truth, beauty, and hope.
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.
A conversation led by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jamison Kantor, and Curator of Academic Programs Shalini Le Gall, examining the echoes of Romantic literature visible in Cameron’s Heaven (1864), a recent acquisition.
