Category Archives: Arts Across The Curriculum
a lecture by Michael Leja on Wednesday November 19, 2014 7:00 pm
Hunter College Department of Art and Art History presents a lecture by
Michael Leja
“Quick and Dirty: Early News Images for the Masses”
Wednesday November 19, 2014 7:00 pm
Kossak Lecture Hall, 1527 Hunter North Building
Michael Leja, professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, studies the visual arts in various media (painting, sculpture, film, photography, prints, illustrations) in the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily in the United States. His work is interdisciplinary and strives to understand visual artifacts in relation to contemporary cultural, social, political, and intellectual developments. He is especially interested in examining the interactions between works of art and particular audiences. His book Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (2004) traces the interactions between the visual arts and the skeptical forms of seeing engendered in modern life in northeastern American cities between 1869 and 1917. It won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize in 2005.
An earlier book, Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (1993) situates the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and others in a culture-wide initiative to re-imagine the self in the midst of a traumatic history. It won the Charles Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He is currently at work on a book exploring changes in pictorial forms and in social relations associated with the industrialization of picture production and the development of a mass market for images in the mid-nineteenth century. His lecture at Hunter, “Quick and Dirty: Early News Images for the Masses,” isdrawn from that research.
Image: Detail, “View of the Great Fire in New York, Dec. 16th and 17th, 1835,” by Bennett, Calyo, and Clover, 1836, aquatint, Museum of the City of New York
Matisse @ MoMA
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
October 12, 2014–February 8, 2015
My printmaking students, there will be a writing assignment on this exhibit.
Free admission to these museums with Hunter student ID (as of fall of 2014)
MoMA
Rubin Museum
Asia Society
Whitney Museum of American Art
Metropolitan Museum (Suggested donation. No need to show student ID, it is pay what-you-can-afford)
Radiolab episode on COLOR
Rethinking the Colorful Kindergarten Classroom
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE @ The Rubin Museum
September 5, 2014 – February 2, 2015
Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India http://www.rubinmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/2556
The first museum exhibition devoted to the Indian influences in Clemente’s work and how they relate to the artistic practices and traditions of various regions in India features approximately 20 works, including paintings from the last 30 years, and four new, larger than life-size sculptures created especially for the exhibition. In contrast to leading conceptual art practices of the 1970s, Clemente refocused attention on representation, narrative, and the figure, and explored traditional, artisanal materials and modes of working.
Since his first trip to India in the 1970s, Francesco Clemente immersed himself in the country’s rich cultures as well as the everyday life and artistic practices of local people. Transforming ancient symbols, myths, and ideas, he has created a personal visual language of dreamlike landscapes, animals, and human figures drawn from recollections of his travels. Themes of sexuality, mythology, and spirituality, along with imaginary narratives of violence, intrigue, fragmentation, love, separation, and jealousy are seen throughout his oeuvre.
Curated by Beth Citron
Image credit: Francesco Clemente (b. 1952); The Four Corners, 1985; gouache on twelve sheets of handmade Pondicherry paper joined with handwoven cotton strips; Private Collection
Related Programming
On-Stage Conversations: ClementeX8 Francesco Clemente on stage with eight personalities from different walks of life (October 1 – November 9) incl. rocker and poet Patti Smith, theater visionary Robert Lepage, rapper-philanthropistNas, Clemente’s spiritual teacher Gelek Rimpoche, chef Eric Ripert, architectBillie Tsien, The Sopranos creator David Chase, and Oscar-winning film director (Gravity) Alfonso Cuarón. Videos from this series
Related Films: Francesco Clemente’s film choices for Cabaret Cinema on Friday nights.
Gallery Talks: Artists on Art featuring Jeni Spota (Sept. 19), Fred Tomaselli (Sept. 26), Julian Schnabel (Oct. 3), Philip Taaffe (Oct. 17), Sandeep Mukherjee (Oct. 24), David Salle (Nov. 7), Terry Winters (Nov. 14), and Swoon (Nov. 21). Videos from this series
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