April 2017
The American West, Landscapes, and Ansel Adams
In collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Art **Please note: This event will be held outside of Chapel Hill at the NC Museum of Art. See below for more information** This seminar will provide historical and cultural context for North Carolina Museum of Arts’ exhibition, “Ansel Adams: Masterworks,” which features The Museum Set, a collection of photographs spanning five decades and chosen by Adams himself as the best work of his career. Joy Kasson will give an overview of…
Find out more »January 2018
Art and Technology From Vermeer to Video
Artists are more than inspired creators, they are also skilled technicians. They often embrace new technologies, transforming them into tools for artistic expression and expanding our understanding of how art is made and what “art” can be? This seminar, to be held at the North Carolina Museum of Art, delves into the relationship between technological advances and the artistic world, exploring how ideas, tools, and techniques have inspired artists, viewers, and conservators in the past and today. The seminar will…
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Passion, Politics, and Art in 20th-Century Mexico *Sold Out*
This event is sold out. Unfortunately, due to the limited seats for the tour/lunch, there is no waitlist. In collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Art and the exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection Passions ran high in the Mexico of the 1920s and ’30s, and no two people better exemplify these passions than the artistic couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.These two artists intensely engaged with the leftist political…
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