The cost of the lecture is $15. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Lensic Box Office by calling 505 988 1234. They may also be purchased at the door. Proceeds from the lecture will benefit the New Mexico Museum of Art’s contemporary art programming.

About Karen LaMonte

Karen LaMonte is world-renowned for her monumental cast-glass sculptures of dresses and other drapery studies. Though originally from New York, the artist now lives in the Czech Republic, where there are facilities with the capacity to cast glass of the scale she requires. LaMonte graduated in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she first began exploring clothing as a vehicle of portraiture in absentia. “I use clothing as a metaphor for identity and human presence,” she has said of her remarkable sculptures. “I believe we have two skins that outline and define who we are. One of course is our natural skin, but we obscure and conceal it beneath clothing which is a second skin, our social skin.”

In 1999, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Czechoslovakia, where she ultimately moved. LaMonte’s other explorations have included cast glass mirrors with photographic imagery and printmaking. Most recently, LaMonte began investigating the use of ceramic in her sculptures at the European Ceramic Work Centre and was the recipient of the Corning Museum of Glass/Kohler Arts Center Joint Residency for working with ceramic and glass.

Karen LaMonte has received many prestigious awards, including: Corning Museum of Glass/Kohler Arts Center, Joint Artist-in-Residence Program; Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award; Japan-United States Friendship Commission, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Artists ExchangeFellowship; Virginia A. Groot Foundation Recognition Award; UrbanGlass Award for New Talent in Glass; Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award; Fulbright Grant: Cast Sculpture in the Czech Republic.

Her work is included in many museum collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, the deYoung Memorial Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Musée des arts décoratifs, National Gallery of Australia, Chrysler Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, and Museum of American Glass.

Mark Rosen, assistant professor of aesthetic studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, will present “An Elevated Subject: Duccio’s Raising of Lazarus in its Visual Tradition” as part of the Kimbell Art Museum’s “Art in Context” series, on Wednesday, May 5, at 12:30 p.m. in the Museum auditorium.

In this free lecture, Rosen will talk about The Raising of Lazarus, a painting by the Sienese master Duccio in the Kimbell’s collection, and explore this subject throughout Christian art. As a tale of restoring a dead body to life (told in John 11:1–44), the theme prefigures Christ’s own resurrection, yet the story is frequently narrated in a significantly different manner: filled with witnesses, anecdotes, and details appealing to viewers’ senses. This lecture will discuss the earliest known depictions of the narrative, those that are contemporary with Duccio’s, and later versions of the subject.

Rosen has received numerous fellowships, most recently from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also contributed to a variety of publications, including the Kimbell’s recent exhibition catalogue From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern.

Kimbell Art Museum

Kimbell Art Museum is open Tuesdays through Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,  Fridays from noon to 8 p.m.,  Sundays, noon to 5 p.m., and closed Mondays. For general information, call 817-332-8451. Web site: www.kimbellart.org

*Admission to the permanent collection is always free.

No. 12, Etretat, the Manneporte by Louis-Alphonse Davanne

If photography is your cup of tea, then the Dallas Museum of Art has something special for you. Three lectures related to the Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 will be presented by photographic experts, curators and educators during April 2010. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the techniques and technology of 19th century photography.

Artist Talk and Demonstration: France Scully Osterman
Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Join artist and nationally recognized expert in early photographic process, France Scully Osterman, for an investigation of the techniques and technology employed by 19th-century photographers featured in The Lens of Impressionism.

Thursday Night Lecture
Photography and “the New Painting” in 19th-Century France
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art and a specialist in early French landscape photography, will investigate how the advent of the new artistic medium of photography dramatically transformed the development of impressionist painting during the second half of the 19th century.

Interpreting Photographs
Saturday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Terry Barrett, art educator, author, and artist, will discuss the subjects, stylistic choices, and significance of the photographic works featured in The Lens of Impressionism. Join Dr. Barrett to discover iconic images of the Normandy coast produced by pioneering photographers such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq.

No. 12, Etretat, the Manneporte by Louis-Alphonse Davanne

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-914-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net.

Season benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate. Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP, Humana North Texas, and Jennifer + John Eagle of John Eagle Dealerships. Lecture Benefactors are Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation. Reception Underwriter is Cindy + Armond Schwartz. This event is presented in association with the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

About the Speaker

Deb Mitchell is a Senior Vice President of the multi-disciplinary landscape architecture, planning, urban design, civil engineering and environmental science firm of JJR. Deb serves JJR’s Board of Directors and is the corporate Director of Design. With over 30 years experience in the planning and design of vital cities and communities, she understands urban complexities and public process. Based in Chicago, Deb has been responsible for the award winning planning for Chicago’s Near North Redevelopment for the Office of the Mayor, the plaza of the Morphosis-designed San Francisco Federal Building, the implementation of the National Garden at the U.S. Botanic Garden, and the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Ascending to the presidency of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Deb used her expertise and influence to articulate ASLA’s vision to the membership, other professions and the general public. She also served as president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. In 2009, she was an invited speaker at the national conferences of the American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, and International Downtown Association. Deb received a B.S. from the University of Kansas and an M.L.A. from the University of Illinois.

About Dallas Architecture Forum

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially.

Our membership comes from business, development, public affairs, education, the arts and from the design fields. This mix of interests and ties is one of the strengths we bring to our involvement with architecture. Support for the Forum’s programs is a grassroots effort, coming from membership subscriptions at all levels and from the generous sponsorship of Forum seasons and events. Visit dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.

These lectures in The Modern’s auditorium begin at 7 p.m. The Tuesday Evenings series brings artists, scholars, and critics to discuss their work each week at the Modern. Admission is free and open to the public. Free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 p.m. on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. and is limited to the first 250 ticketholders. A live broadcast of the lecture will be shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. The Museum galleries and Café Modern will remain open until 7 p.m. on Tuesdays during the series, (regular gallery admission charge applies).

Revisit the insightful lectures from the Tuesday Evening lecture series or discover new ways to look at works in the Museum’s collection. Hear artists speak about their work, or listen to curators’ perspectives and discussions. Visit www.themodern.org or subscribe to our Podcasts on iTunes or using the RSS feed in your preferred program.

April 6
Ben Jones

Ben Jones is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose tantalizing work is featured in the Modern’s third FOCUS exhibition of the season. Jones, a member of the East Coast Art Collective, Paper Rad, has received recognition with an impressive exhibition, performance, and publication record for what is described in the press release for his solo exhibition The New Dark Age at Deitch Projects in New York as, “between-media video sculpture, light painting, and ‘drawing in the digital age’ ” that “explores new methods of pictorial storytelling…” As with the work in The New Dark Age, Jones tends to blow the viewer away with an onslaught of imagery, pattern, and color that replicate and play with the visual bombardment of the contemporary world. As the Deitch Projects press release aptly explains, “To the naked eye, The New Dark Age might be a blinding glimpse at the darkly comic heart of the ‘internet generation gone wild.’ ” This Tuesday Evening presentation offers a special preview of what Jones has in-store for the Modern’s audience with the Museum’s final FOCUS exhibition which opens to the public Sunday, April 11, 2009.

Tuesday Evening Cocktails and Light Bites

Guests can enjoy refreshments from 5 to 7 pm in Café Modern before the Tuesday Evenings lecture series. Choose from Café Modern’s unique Modern cocktail menu or distinctive wine list. Coffee, tea, and light snacks are also available.

Upcoming Schedule

March 30 – Kenneth Goldsmith
April 6 – Ben Jones

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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Museum Gallery Hours
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General Admission Prices (includes special exhibition)
$4 for students with ID and seniors (60+)
$10 for adults (13+)
Free for children 12 and under
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Free the first Sunday of every month and half-price every Wednesday.

Over the course of his career, Rembrandt van Rijn produced an unprecedented and unmatched array of self-portraits, including the recently rediscovered Rembrandt Laughing (private collection), on view at the Museum as a “Guest of Honor.” This free lecture focuses on Rembrandt’s earliest self-portraits. Frequently called expression studies, some of these informal images show Rembrandt looking in the mirror and laughing, frowning, or grimacing. Others use dramatic lighting to suggest inner states. Challenging the assertion that these are not self-portraits, Chapman places Rembrandt’s initial experiments in expressive self-portrayal in the broader context of his representation of emotion.

Chapman is the author of Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller, as well as numerous articles on Dutch painting, art theory, and artistic identity. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Kimbell Art Museum hours are Tuesdays through Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, noon–8 p.m.; Sundays, noon–5 p.m.; closed Mondays. For general information, call 817-332-8451. Web site: www.kimbellart.org.

*Admission to the permanent collection is always free.

New York-based artist R. H. Quaytman and art historian Rhea Anastas recount the three-year run of Orchard, a Lower East Side gallery operated by a collective of artists, writers, and film and video makers in their presentation titled, May I Help You? A Short History of Orchard, 2005–2008 and a Spreadsheet. Quaytman and Anastas offer two perspectives on what happened when a strategic alliance of 12 artists was attempted, and when this diversity of artistic intentions, models, and values was made the basis of an exhibition, panel, and screening program. The project is discussed as one response to a complex period in art and culture in post-9/11 New York. In one of a series of articles on Orchard for the journal Grey Room, Branden W. Joseph wrote, “During that three-year period, the exhibitions, events, openings, screenings, discussions, and performances staged at the venue gradually became the locus and embodiment of a certain strain of critical artistic discourse. …” While Quaytman and Anastas have successful, individual careers within their respective fields, this evenings presentation focuses on that “strain of critical artistic discourse” and the shared experience of Orchard.

In conjunction with this Tuesday Evenings lecture, Southern Methodist University offers the opportunity to hear R. H. Quaytman present her own work at the Meadow Museum’s Smith Auditorium at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, March 24.

These lectures in the Modern’s auditorium begin at 7 p.m. The Tuesday Evenings series brings artists, scholars, and critics to discuss a topic of their choice each week at the Modern. Admission is free and open to the public. Free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to the first 250 ticketholders.

A live broadcast of the lecture will be shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. The Museum galleries and Café Modern will remain open until 7 pm on Tuesdays during the series, (regular gallery admission charge applies).

Revisit the insightful lectures from the Tuesday Evening lecture series or discover new ways to look at works in the Museum’s collection. Hear artists speak about their work, or listen to curators’ perspectives and discussions. Visit www.themodern.org or subscribe to our Podcasts on iTunes or using the RSS feed in your preferred program.

Tuesday Evening Cocktails and Light Bites

Guests can enjoy refreshments from 5 to 7 p.m. in Café Modern before the Tuesday Evenings lecture series. Choose from Café Modern’s unique Modern cocktail menu or distinctive wine list. Coffee, tea, and light snacks are also available.

The Modern

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76107

817.738.9215
www.themodern.org

Paper boats instructions by Muriel Hasbun

Art Talk & Workshop: barquitos de papel and other stories
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
March 6, 2010 at 4 p.m.

Join artist Muriel Hasbun and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) on March 6th at 4: PM at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary for an Art Talk & Workshop. In conjunction with her opening exhibition at The MAC, “Muriel Hasbun : barquitos de papel and other stories, Hasbun and the MAC invite all participants to bring photocopies of family photos, letters from home, documents and other memorabilia to make paper boats to add to the installation and to the artist’s growing collective archive.

Muriel Hasbun began the barquitos de papel collective archive as a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador in 2006. By using the imagery of folded paper origami boats as part of barquitos de papel / paper boats, Hasbun creates an interactive space and a metaphor for cultural and personal exchange.

After the workshop, participants are invited to stay and join The MAC at the opening reception for all three exhibitions, Sandow Birk: “Depravities of War” in the MAC’s Large Gallery,Muriel Hasbun: “barquitos de papel and other stories” in the Square Gallery, Sirajski and Jessica Benjamin: “of Wrath and Proxy Wars” in the MAC’s New Works Space, all on view from March 6 through April 3.

Muriel Hasbun has exhibited her photo-based work at the American University Museum (2008), NYU’s Hemispheric Institute’s “Encuentro” at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires (2007); the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego (2007); Houston’s FotoFest (2006), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (2004); the 50th Venice Biennale (2003); the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City (1999); and at the 29ème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles (1998). Her photographs are in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Museum of the Americas, Lehigh University,the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Hasbun is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Photography at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C.

About the MAC

Established in 1994, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) is a nonprofit organization that stands as a Dallas advocate for creative freedom offering the opportunity for experimentation and presentation of art in all disciplines. It supports the emerging and established artist roll in society providing a forum for critical dialogue with their audiences. This relationship is cultivated through education and innovative programming. The MAC is a member of Dallas Art Dealers Association and The Uptown Association.

Call 214-953-1212 for information or visit www.the-mac.org. The MAC is open Wednesday – Saturday 11 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Paper boats instructions by Muriel Hasbun

Hassell reinvents the American landscape with his colorful interpretations of the Southwest. Recognized for his bold use of shape and imaginative renditions of plants and animals, this Texas native has made a career of painting the flora and fauna indigenous to this region of the country. Many of his paintings present a cacophony of pattern and color that “startles perspective and toys with balance.” Whether painting birds, a rainbow trout, or land furrows, the artist makes patterning a primary element in almost every painting.

Hassell’s work has received acclaim throughout the United States. His paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Dallas Museum of Art, as well as in numerous corporate and private collections.

“The Artist’s Eye” is an ongoing program moderated by Kimbell staff. It brings Texas artists to the Museum to discuss works in the permanent collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own.

In this free lecture, Brettell will discuss the fascinating stories behind the distinguished private art collectors in Texas. Collectors come in many different stripes, and Texas is no exception. From the highly eclectic taste of John and Dominique de Menil, in Houston, to the more focused path of James H. and Lillian Clark, in Dallas, Brettell will lift a curtain on private artistic enthusiasms and, through historic photographs, show how these collectors have lived with their treasures.

Brettell co-organized the Kimbell’s current exhibition, From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern, as well as Gauguin and Impressionism in 2005. He is the author of numerous publications, including Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860–1890 and Modern Art, 1851–1929: Capitalism and Representation.

This lecture is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, which is on view through March 21.

Miguel Bonilla

Join the El Paso Museum of Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 12:15 p.m. for Artists on Art with Miguel Bonilla. This event is free to the public.

Miguel Bonilla was born in El Paso, Texas in 1978. He has been drawing floor plans and designing furniture since he was able to hold a pencil. His interest in cartoons and comics, as well as an extensive library of children’s books, has inspired his other worldly visions. “I have lost most of my sense of boundary between what is real and what is possibly real.”

As a painter, Miguel Bonilla was able to expand his imagination into any realm available, something that his career as a designer did not allow. He was the owner of the Shine Gallery for Contemporary Art in El Paso from 2003 until 2007. Currently, he is working on a B.A. in Painting at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has two daughters and a wife that hold him in a balance of fiction, fact and wild imagination.

Artists on Art – located at the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) provides local artists an opportunity to exhibit one work of art in any media accompanied by a 30 minute discussion on their work and its relation to the Museum’s permanent collection. There are six exhibits per year and the work is exhibited for a two-month period.

Joseph D. Ketner II is currently the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, at Emerson College, a position that follows his post as the chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum where he organized Andy Warhol: the Last Decade. As a preview to the exhibition’s opening on February 14, Ketner shares insight and expertise on the subject in his presentation Who is Andy Warhol. He explains that, “Warhol is as misunderstood as he is famous. Over the course of his nearly 40-year career the mercurial, paradoxical artist transformed art and celebrity. Yet, it is interesting that his reputation is founded on only his six-year Pop art phase. Remarkably, the final decade of his career may have been his most productive.” For Tuesday Evenings, Ketner examines some of the little known aspects of Warhol’s personality that are revealed in his seldom seen last paintings.

These lectures in the Modern’s auditorium begin at 7 p.m. The Tuesday Evenings series brings artists, scholars, and critics to discuss a topic of their choice each week at the Modern. Admission is free and open to the public. Free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to the first 250 ticketholders. A live broadcast of the lecture will be shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. The Museum galleries and Café Modern will remain open until 7 pm on Tuesdays during the series, (regular gallery admission charge applies).

Revisit the insightful lectures from the Tuesday Evening lecture series or discover new ways to look at works in the Museum’s collection. Hear artists speak about their work, or listen to curators’ perspectives and discussions. Visit www.themodern.org or subscribe to our Podcasts on iTunes or using the RSS feed in your preferred program.

Tuesday Evening Cocktails and Light Bites

Guests can enjoy refreshments from 5 to 7 p.m. in Café Modern before the Tuesday Evenings lecture series. Choose from Café Modern’s unique Modern cocktail menu or distinctive wine list. Coffee, tea, and light snacks are also available.

Christopher Lloyd, former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, The Royal Collection, UK, will present a free lecture titled Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasts in Royal Patronage on Friday, February 26, at 6 p.m. in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium.

In this free lecture, Lloyd will discuss the contrasting personalities of the greatest artists of 18th-century Britain––Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) and Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Reynolds was formal and intellectual, Gainsborough relaxed and idealistic. Lloyd will highlight how these differences came through in the style of their paintings, as well as their dealings with George III and his court, and how their mutual respect led to one of the most affecting reconciliations in British art.

Lloyd was appointed Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures in 1988, with responsibility for 7,000 paintings and 3,000 miniatures throughout the royal palaces, retiring from this position in 2005. His publications include monographs on painters, official catalogues of museum collections and general surveys of the Royal Collection. Lloyd has curated numerous exhibitions and in 1992 made a six-part television series on the paintings in the Royal Collection for British television.

This lecture is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern, on view through March 21.

Join the El Paso Museum of Art on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 2:00 pm in the El Paso Energy Auditorium for “Into the Desert Light 1850-1960”, a lecture by Michael R. Grauer which will discuss early El Paso art. This event is free to the public. Seating is limited to 212 people and is on a first come, first served basis.

Free parking is available in the City Hall Parking lot on Santa Fe Street. Parking is also available at the Camino Real Hotel and the Convention and Visitors Bureau of a fee.

Michael R. Grauer is Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Art at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas.

Mr. Grauer holds a BFA in Painting and Art History from the University of Kansas and a MA in Art History from SMU. He also worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Meadows Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art. He has curated numerous exhibitions including “Women Artists of Texas, 1850-1950”, “Neighbors: Texas Artists in New Mexico”; and guest-curated “A Symphony of Shade and Light: Frank Reaugh and His Students”.

He has lectured nationally and has authored and co-authored books including W. Herbert Dunton: A Retrospective, Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945, and articles for American Art Review, Southwest Art, and the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review.

For more information please call (915) 532-1707.

Free, tickets available at 1 p.m.

Exhibiting artists Glenn Ligon and Marilyn Minter discuss desire with Desire curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi at the Blanton Museum of Art.

New York-based artist Glenn Ligon is the recent winner of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. He has exhibited widely and is featured in the current group exhibitions Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool and Hard Targets at the Wexner Center for the Arts. In 2005 the exhibition Glenn Ligon: Some Changes was presented at The Power Plant, Toronto, the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, the Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver and the Mudam-Foundation Musee d’Art Modern Grand-duc, Luxembourg.

Also based in New York, Marilyn Minter has been featured in numerous exhibitions including an upcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. Her 2009 video Green Pink Caviar has screened in museums and publicly including presentations in Times Square and at MOMA in New York, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, and as the backdrop for the opening of Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet European Tour. Group exhibitions include The Anniversary Show at SFMOMA, the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and the Busan Biennale in Busan, Korea.