Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Spring 2012 Tuesday Evenings Lecture Series

This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public. To assure seating, free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. and is limited to 250. A live broadcast of the lectures is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Lectures begin at 7 p.m. The Museum galleries and the café remain open until 7 p.m. on Tuesday evenings during the series.

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The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Presents the 7th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Featuring Isabel Wilkerson

The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture will present the Seventh Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on January 16, 2012, 7-8:45 p.m., in the Winspear Opera House in Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center.

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane: A Free Special Evening Lecture at the Kimbell Art Museum

Andrew Graham-Dixon, British art critic and author, will present a free lecture titled Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane on Friday, November 18, at 6 p.m., in the Darnell Street auditorium.

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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Hosts Graduate Student Lectureship Program

The Graduate Student Lectureship Program provides local art and art history graduate students the opportunity to research and present public lectures on works on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. These focused gallery talks discuss artworks within a thematic framework designed to provide new insights on familiar pieces.

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Who Ever Heard of a Woman Sculptor? A Lecture by SMU Professor Dr. Alessandra Comini at the Dallas Museum of Art

Dr. Alessandra Comini, University Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University (SMU), who gifted the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) with the sculpture Lady Godiva by Anne Whitney, will discuss women sculptors from America who descended upon the Seven Hills of Rome during the 1860s and beyond and who made social and art history.

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Artist Eric Fischl to Lecture at the Glassell School of Art

Internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor Eric Fischl will present the inaugural Naomi Turner True Lecture at the Glassell School of Art on Friday, October 28, at 6 p.m. The lecture, How I paint what I paint, is free and open to the public, and it takes place in the school’s Frank Freed Auditorium, 5101 Montrose Boulevard.

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Author Stephen King Hosts Museum Fundraiser at Majestic Theatre in Dallas

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas. If you had the chance to change history, would you? Stephen King’s latest novel 11/22/63, on shelves November 8, addresses this very scenario as the book’s main character travels back in time on a mission to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy.

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The Classical and the Primitive: Modern Sculptures at the Kimbell

Jed Morse, curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, will present a lecture entitled The Classical and the Primitive: Modern Sculptures of the Kimbell as part of the Museum’s Art in Context series, on Wednesday, September 21, at 12:30 p.m., in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium. Admission is free.

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Treasures from the British Royal Collection Lecture at the Kimbell Art Museum

Oliver Everett, librarian emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, United Kingdom, will present a free lecture titled Treasures from the British Royal Collection on Friday, September 30, at 6 p.m., in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium.

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The MAC Announces 2011 Fall Scholar Lecture Series

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary announces the 2011 Fall Scholar Lecture Series featuring Dr. Benjamin Lima, Professor Ryder Richards, Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite, Dr. Eric Stryker and Dr. Jennifer Way.

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Dead Photographers Society — Photographers who still find pleasure in taking pictures the old fashioned way with film, chemicals and a dark room.
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Laura Moore Fine Art Studio — A working artist's studio and gallery. Check this one out in McKinney, Texas.
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