This week....
DR. RICHARD BRETTELL
Margaret McDermott Distinguished Professor of Art and Aesthetics
Oct. 7: Mrs. Bertha Palmer: A Collector Dealer in Gilded Age America
Oct. 14: Frederick Clay Bartlett: Post-Impressionism and Modern Art in the 1920's
7:30 p.m.,
Davidson Auditorium, SOM, free
The Kimbell Art Museum's landmark exhibition in the summer and fall of 2008 is an exhibition of the major masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionist Painting from The Art Institute of Chicago. This group of more than 90 paintings and pastels is the finest in the United States and is second globally only to the collections at the Museum d'Orsay.
In honor of the exhibition, Professor Brettell will give two public lectures on the two most important private collectors of French avant-garde painting in Chicago, Mrs. Bertha Palmer, who owned more than ninety paintings by Monet during her lifetime, and Mr. Frederick Clay Bartlett, whose private collection was given to The Art Institute of Chicago in 1926 with major paintings by Cezanne, van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, Picasso, Hodler, and Matisse.
Classroom Talk: October 9, 2008, 7:00 pm
"Falling Man: the American Novel in the Age of Terrorism"
Dr. Walt Muyumba, Associate Professor of English, UNT
at Centraltrak 800 Exposition Ave., Dallas, 75226
Can fiction produce critical thinking about the present? Can the novel inspire political agency? Dr. Muyumba will discuss the relationship between the literary novel and American society as he examines the possibilities (or lack thereof) of literary art spurring critical discourses about war and politics in the age of Terror and terrorism. He will focus on novels by Don DeLillo and John Wideman.
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On-Going Art Exhibitions
ALCHEMY OR CHANGE
September 19 - October 18, Visual Arts Building, free
LUDIC SPACE: Faith Gay and Ruben Nieto
September 20 - November 17 at Centraltrak
800 Exposition Ave. Dallas, Texas, 75226. Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sun., 12 - 5:00 p.m.
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