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Keynote for the opening gala of the exhibition "Represent: 200 Years of African American Art". Lecturer: Dr. Richard J. Powell.
Discover how artists such as Marlene Dumas and Wangechi Mutu negotiate the territories between race, gender, locality, and the body. Lecturer: Okwui Enwezor.
Curator Felice Fischer offers Museum members a first look at “Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano”, an exhibition exploring the longest-lived school of painting in Japanese history.
Rolf Fehlbaum, currently chairman emeritus at Vitra, received Collab’s 2014 Design Excellence Award.
Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, delivers a lecture on Paul Strand's photography and cinema.
In this illustrated lecture, Inge Reist will guide us through the maze of information that researchers face when they study the formation of great art collections.
Jitish Kallat discusses his art and how it informs his vision as Artistic Director and Curator of the upcoming Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, India's newly-instituted, large-scale international contemporary art exhibition.
Supermodel Pat Cleveland, writer Michael Gross, fashion journalist Carol Mongo, and Bjorn Amelan, who was Patrick Kelly’s life and business partner, join in a conversation about Kelly’s fashion designs and career.
Timothy Rub and noted architectural historian David Brownlee discuss the highlights of Frank Gehry’s plans for the renovation and expansion of the Museum’s landmark main building and how these will enhance the public’s enjoyment of the Museum’s collections.
Museum President and COO Gail Harrity discusses the comprehensive design for the renewal and expansion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art by internationally celebrated architect Frank O. Gehry.
Museum Director Timothy Rub and architect Frank O. Gehry discuss Gehry's proposed Master Plan for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Artist and self-proclaimed mud man William Daley creates ceramics that are geometric and mystical, architectural and meditative. Honoring his seven-decade career as a potter and teacher, this afternoon includes a talk by Daley and lectures from scholars and artists in the field of contemporary craft. Former students and others whom Daley has influenced are encouraged to offer their own testimony at the conclusion of the program.
The most influential industrial designer of his generation, Marc Newson (Australian, born 1963) has designed everything from a dish rack to a personal jet, some pieces mass-produced, others one-offs, for both companies and art galleries. As creative director of Qantas Airways, Newson redesigned the interiors and fittings of the airline’s Airbus fleet, including cabin lighting and seats as well as its in-flight tableware.
A Conversation with Rineke Dijkstra, Hans den Hartog Jager and Peter Barberie. Rineke Dijkstra’s art has been described as “an engrossing meditation on the anxieties, pride and tumult of youth and the emergence of the self.” Since the early 1990s, Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture.
Annual Library Lecture: "Triumph on Fairmount, All Over Again," with speaker Joseph J. Rishel, Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900.
Barbara Chase-Riboud discusses her visual art and poetry with curator Carlos Basualdo. The artist's work was the subject of the 2013 exhibition "Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles", focusing on five sculptures from the important Malcolm X series as well as related sculptures and drawings made between 1966 and 2008.
Award-winning illustrator Jerry Pinkney speaks about his Philadelphia roots, his artistic process, and his reflections on selected projects. Pinkney’s work includes retellings of fables and folktales from all over the world, moments in American history, and images of tradition and family in African-American culture. A career retrospective, “Witness”, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art June 28, 2013 - September 22, 2013.
Elizabeth Siegel, Associate Curator of Photography at The Art Institute of Chicago will present the work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard in connection with Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks. Looking at a fertile period of Meatyard's work made from 1959 through the late 1960s and before his final series The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, Siegel will explore Meatyard’s use of dolls to represent human presence and masks to universalize his sitters.
Richard Fletcher, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Ohio State University, discusses Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam from 1978. A "painting in ten parts," Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam is a celebrated work in the Museum's collection that takes Homer's epic poem as its point of departure. Reflecting upon the artist's life-long engagement with the classical past, Richard Fletcher provides an intimate glimpse into Twombly's inspired masterpiece.
Los Angeles–based artist Mark Bradford speaks about his work and its connections to the urban landscape. This talk will also address how both he and Zoe Strauss, two artists working in different mediums, confront similar subject matter. Following the talk, Strauss will join Bradford in a discussion moderated by exhibition curator Peter Barberie.
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