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Tuesday Evenings Cocktails and Light Bites

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

Schedule

February 7

For this Tuesday Evenings presentation, artist Glenn Ligon is in conversation with curator Scott Rothkopf on the subject of Ligon’s midcareer retrospective Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. Ligon is one of the most important American artists working today, with work spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and film, and exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, including the 1991 and 1993 Whitney Biennials; Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art and The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, both at the Whitney; solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Kunstverein München, Germany; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri; ICA in Philadelphia; and SFMOMA; as well as the 1997 Venice Biennale and Documenta II. Rothkopf is curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and curator of Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. Prior to his position at the Whitney, Rothkopf was senior editor at Artforum. Through both positions, Rothkopf has come to know Ligon and his art well, having worked closely with the artist on this retrospective and as editor of Ligon’s book Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews. Given Ligon and Rothkopf’s relationship, as well as their obvious insight into the exhibition, this is a very special presentation that also serves as a preview for Glenn Ligon: AMERICA,which opens to the public on Sunday, February 12.

February 14

Andrew Campbell is an art historian and senior lecturer at Texas State University, where he teaches courses on contemporary art, feminism and visual representation, bad taste, film, and graphic novels. For Tuesday Evenings, Campbell presents one facet of his current project, Bound Together, an academic study of gay and lesbian leather communities in the 1970s. In this Valentine’s Day presentation entitled The Practice of Sex, the Work of History/ the Work of Sex, the Practice of History, Campbell–in an effort to engage in the ongoing project of writing contemporary art histories by making sense of a multitude of artists and their practice(s) as well as the expansion of historical LGBTQ visual cultures and communities that might otherwise be deemed too esoteric or stigmatized for study–presents four contemporary artists/collectives (Christian Holstad, Monica Majoli, Dean Sameshima, and A. K. Burns/A. L. Steiner) who refashion source documents from 1970s leather communities in order to comment on the politicized practices of LGBTQ love and sex in the twenty-first century.

*Audience members should note that to fully explore and present his subject, Campbell’s presentation includes mature language, themes, and subject matter.

February 21

Tim Rollins is an artist, activist, and teacher based in South Bronx, New York, who is known for what might be understood as “art activism,” and specifically his collaborative work with a group of at-risk students who call themselves Kids of Survival (K.O.S.). Beginning his career in 1980 as cofounder of Group Material–a collective of young New York artists pooling resources to launch exhibitions that address social themes–Rollins laid the ground work for what has become an art-world phenomenon known as Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Moving from traditional student/teacher interactions to a respected fine art collaborative practice, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. is represented by Lehman Maupin gallery in New York and shows internationally, with an exhibition history that includes two Whitney Biennials, the 1988 Venice Biennale, Carnegie International, as well as Documenta 8. After showing at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, more than 20 years ago, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. present new works in a major survey exhibition in Basel entitled On Transfiguration, on view January 21 through April 15, 2012.”With Rollins’s guidance, these students are producing artwork of a remarkable sophistication, which refuses to conform to known categories but alternates between the literary and the visual, the modern and the naïve. Rollins’s teaching approach is at once classic and iconoclastic, for he uses significant works of literature as the basis for a visual statement. The result is a multilevel collaboration: among the students, between teacher and student, between the group and the authors whose books they choose.” Roberta Smith, New York Times.

This Tuesday Evenings presentation, Art and the Beloved Community, offers a special opportunity to hear from Rollins on the history, experiences, and initiatives of this extraordinary group.

February 28

Katie Paterson is a young British artist receiving a great deal of attention as a cross-medium, multidisciplinary, and conceptually driven artist who focuses on nature, ecology, geology, and cosmology in her work, using her skill and knowledge as an artist together with her limitless curiosity and tireless research to probe matters often left to science. Her devotion and hard work have been rewarded. Paterson recently held the 2010-2011 John Florent Stone Fellowship at Edinburgh College of Art and the 2010-2011 Leverhulme Artist in Residence in the Astrophysics Group at the University College London, as well as recently being named one of four “Best New Artists in Britain” by The Observer of London. In addition, in 2008 she was the recipient of the first annual Creative 30 Award. With work that literally explores the universe and presents its various phenomena, Paterson has been acknowledged and championed by fellow British artist Cornelia Parker in a 2010 article for The Guardian as, “original, engaging, and expansive. She makes us realize how inconsequential we are in relation to the universe.”Described in the same article as, “a romantic . . . with the patience, curiosity, and technical persistence of a scientist,” Paterson first came to public attention with a solo show at Modern Art Oxford in 2008, a year after graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She has since shown in group and solo exhibitions from London to Seoul, Korea to Venice, where in 2011 she presented the unique and fascinating project 100 Billion Suns during the Venice Biennale.

For Tuesday Evenings, Paterson shares her experiences and ideas as an artist, offering special insight into her work featured in the Modern’s FOCUS: Katie Paterson, as well as what to look forward to from her growing career.

March 6

Jill Magid, a New York-based artist and writer, seeks platforms for working inside and outside of institutions, responding to their imposition, negotiation, and at times, capitulation of power. For Magid, this power is not a remote condition to contest, but rather something to manipulate by drawing it closer, exploiting its loopholes, engaging it in dialogue, seducing its agents, revealing its sources, infiltrating its structure, and repeating its logic. As an artist and writer, Magid is fascinated by the topics of hidden information; being public as a condition for existence; and intimacy in relation to power. With solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Yvon Lambert, Paris and New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York; the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; and at the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands, Magid has been recognized with awards such as the Basis Stipendium from Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands and the Netherland-America Foundation Fulbright Fellowship. She is also the author of four books, including Becoming Tarden, which opens with, “The secret itself is much more beautiful than its revelation.” In accordance with Magid’s proclivity for intrigue, this book is as mysterious as the project it is associated with, which included the book being edited, censored, and its contents confiscated by the Dutch Secret Service, and a one-time-only exhibition of the novel at Tate Modern last fall.

For Tuesday Evenings, Magid presents Jill Magid: Embedded, a survey of the artist’s career with insights into her strange and thrilling experiences and endeavors as an artist, including her next project, Failed States,at Arthouse and AMOAin Austin, which is also the subject of Magid’s fourth and upcoming book by the same title.

For more information about Jill Magid, visit www.jillmagid.net.

March 13

Brooklyn-based artist Byron Kim is known for his monochrome paintings, born out of representation, that seemingly challenge their relationship to abstraction. Faye Hirsch describes his work in an interview with the artist for Art in America, “You see subtle variations of color within the fields. Recalling paintings by midcentury modernists like Rothko and Reinhardt, they feel like pure abstraction, but as always with Kim, have profound ties to the world.” Recognized in the early 1990s for Synecdoche, a grouping of hundreds of small monochrome paintings based on skin tones that was included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, Kim collaborated that same year with friend and fellow artist Glenn Ligon on the painting Black and White, which exploits the notion of “flesh tone” as a color. Kim has since moved to meditations on the sky with his ongoing Sunday Paintings (a series begun in 2001). These small and stunning presentations of the daytime sky are immediately personal, with notations from mundane to profound, that mark the moment they represent written across their surfaces while at the same time thoughtfully reference the historical Today Series by On Kawara. Kim’s devotion to his paintings and their subjects has brought him critical acclaim; he has received numerous awards, including the Alpert Award in the Arts, UCROSS, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including Korea, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.

For Tuesday Evenings, Kim presents the ideas and experiences that have formed his work.

March 27

Andrea Fraser is an artist currently based in Los Angeles, California, where she is a professor at UCLA in the department of art. She also serves as visiting faculty for the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Fraser has used performance, video, and a range of other media to explore the motivations that drive artists, collectors, art dealers, corporate sponsors, museum trustees, and museum visitors from the pursuit of prestige to that of financial investment, to sexual fantasy and self-realization. Working since the mid-1980s, Fraser has built on the site-specific and research-based approaches that emerged with conceptualism, combining them with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire. Her methods are rooted in the psychoanalytic principle that one can only engage structures and relationships through the immediacy of performance. In addition, Fraser also writes about her observations and experiences in art and life. Moved by a personal and immediate engagement with Fred Sandback’s work at Dia: Beacon in 2004, she wrote the essay, “Why does Fred Sandback’s Work Make Me Cry.”

For Tuesday Evenings, Fraser presents and discusses this moving essay that explores the psychological and emotional aspects of our relationship with art and museums.

April 3

Writer and artist Gregg Bordowitz presents Testing Some Beliefs, an ongoing series of lectures/performances that consider the strength and longevity, as well as the present relevancy, of some personal and collective beliefs. Currently the Chair of the film, video, new media, and animation department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and faculty at the Whitney Independent Study Program, Bordowitz is known for his work as an AIDS activist in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as his socially conscious, thoughtful, and poetic performance-based work. Throughout his career, he has been recognized with awards and grants, including the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award for The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003, a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Of Testing Some Beliefs, Bordowitz writes, “I believe that art can change the world. I believe that art and freedom are necessarily related. There are no facts to support these claims. Still, I carry these beliefs formed decades ago. How do some beliefs remain and what do I gain by believing? At the risk of sounding ridiculous, I will try to explain.”

For more information on Gregg Bordowitz, visit www.greggbordowitz.com.

April 10

Gary Rough is a Scottish conceptual artist based in New York who represented his homeland in the 2003 Venice Biennale. As described in the press release for a recent solo show at numberthirtyfive gallery, New York, Rough “has cast himself as the antihero in his own dystopian novel.” Rough scrupulously labors to report upon the fragility, pathos, and beauty of the human condition, evoking the romantic, mundane, bleak, and intimate in paintings, sculpture, text, T-shirts, site-specific installations, and more with work that appears to be cobbled together in a deceptively hurried and craftless manner. It is no surprise that Rough was attracted to Kurt Vonnegut’s character Rabo Karabekian, the fictional and failed Abstract Expressionist painter whose paintings faded and disappeared from their canvases in Bluebeard due to a combination of stupidity and bad luck. After working with the author, in 2007, the year of Vonnegut’s death, Rough recreated and showed Karabekian’s “Sateen-Dura Luxe” paintings, at Fergus McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, based on Vonnegut’s descriptions of them in the book. This exercise, and the remarkable resulting paintings, brought Rough critical acclaim and an intriguing relationship with Vonnegut and his widow. Rough continues to explore the ordinary and often pathetic experiences and conditions of life on earth with tenderness and extraordinary astuteness. For Tuesday Evenings, he shares the insights and revelations of his career thus far.

April 17

Lucy Lippard is a distinguished writer, curator, editor, lecturer, and activist who has long been appreciated for her expansive scholarship and insight, having been one of the first to recognize the dematerialization of the work in art’s movement toward conceptualism as well as an early champion of feminist art. The author of 21 books, curator of 50 exhibitions, cofounder of Printed Matter Inc., the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and other artists’ organizations, Lippard has received eight honorary doctorates in fine arts as well as numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism, the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Bard College Award for Curatorial Excellence. Of Lippard’s book, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, Thomas Hine wrote for the New York Times Book Review, “Lippard overwhelms us with the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place. . . . In its final section, The Lure of the Local is revealed as a sort of art book after all. Its intent is to explore the many things that those who make art or who make judgments about art should think about when they consider art that seeks to be ‘contextual,’ ‘site-specific,’ or ‘place making’.” Lippard’s most recent book is Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin 1250-1782, for which she received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library.

For Tuesday Evenings, Lippard presents Undermining, touching on photography, the new West, development, water, and land art, as she discusses pits and erections (gravel pits and skyscrapers), and more.

Isabel Wilkerson, Journalism Professor at Boston University

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. The theme for this year’s program is “The World Dr. King Inherited & Changed.” Keynote speaker will be Isabel Wilkerson, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief at The New York Times. ALON USA and Baylor Health Care System are presenting sponsors.

“The World Dr. King Inherited & Changed” will address an aspect of Dr. King’s legacy which is in danger of being forgotten: the social and cultural conditions that led to the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Wilkerson, the author of The New York Times’ bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns, will be discussing the dramatic, untold stories of American history from the “great migration” of some six million black citizens who fled the South and Jim Crow laws from 1915 to 1970 in search of a better life. The Seventh Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium will also feature Dallas citizens who can recall and relate personal experiences before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. King.

“For this Symposium we felt it was important to take our audience back to the time before the Civil Rights Movement swept the nation,” said Dr. Larry Allums, executive director of The Dallas Institute. “By doing this, only then can we truly reflect on the incredible impact Dr. King had on our country and how far we have come in the last 50 years. I am thrilled that Isabel Wilkerson will be the first African American woman to speak at our MLK Jr. Symposium. With her historical insight and extensive experience in the world of narrative journalism, this event is one that I urge everyone, whatever their race, to come together for and encounter as one.”

The program will begin at 7 p.m. with a keynote address, followed by an interview and discussion until 8:45 p.m.

The MLK Symposium is open to the public, but attendance is by reservation only. Admission is $20; admission for teachers and students is $10. Group rate for 10 or more is $15 per ticket. To register, call the Winspear box office at (214) 880-0202 or go to www.attpac.org. For Group Sales (10 or more) contact Jason Keller at (214) 978-2878. For more information, call (214) 871-2440 or visit www.dallasinstitute.org.

Information about Feature Speaker and Sponsors

Isabel Wilkerson is a Journalism Professor at Boston University, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of The New York Times’ bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns. This book reveals the untold stories of the the “American Migration.” She interviewed over 1,200 people, gathered their stories, and compiled them to create the book she tells through three unforgettable protagonists as they make the decision of their lives. In 1994, Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times, making her the first African-American woman to win for individual reporting. She also won the George Polk Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

She has appeared on 60 Minutes, PBS’s Charlie Rose, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NBC’s Nightly News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and more. Wilkerson has lectured on narrative writing at Harvard University, has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and as the James M. Cox Jr. Professor at Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University.

The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization with a 20-member Board of Directors comprised of community leaders. Created in 1980, The Dallas Institute is Dallas’ only center for creative and intellectual exchange that provides enriching programs for the public that are grounded in the wisdom of the humanities, laying the foundation for Dallas to realize its full potential for cultural excellence. The Dallas Institute is located at 2719 Routh St., Dallas, Texas 75201. For information, call (214) 871-2440, or visit www.DallasInstitute.org.

Alon USA Energy, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the South Central, Southwestern and Western regions of the United States. The Company owns four crude oil refineries in Texas, California, Louisiana and Oregon, with an aggregate crude oil throughput capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels per day. Alon is a leading producer of asphalt, which it markets through its asphalt terminals predominately in the Western United States. Alon is the largest 7-Eleven licensee in the United States and operates more than 300 convenience stores in Texas and New Mexico. Alon markets motor fuel products under the FINA brand at these locations and at approximately 610 distributor-serviced locations.

Baylor Health Care System, founded as a Christian ministry of healing, serves all people through exemplary health care, education, research, and community service. The company focuses on innovation and research to provide advanced health care options, treatments, and procedures. Baylor offers an extensive network of locations and physicians, as well as financial assistance programs, so everyone can access quality health care they can trust. Baylor is a non-profit health care system that has been committed to improving the community by reinvesting financially in the health of North Texas for over 100 years.

Isabel Wilkerson, Journalism Professor at Boston University

Cardsharps by Caravaggio (image courtesy 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. This talk coincides with the new U.S. edition of Graham-Dixon’s acclaimed biography of Caravaggio. In The New York Times Book Review, Hilary Spurling wrote, “[Graham-Dixon’s] book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century.”

In his lecture at the Kimbell Art Museum, Graham-Dixon will delve into original Italian sources, presenting fresh details about Caravaggio’s many crimes and public brawls and the events surrounding his tragic death at the age of 38. Graham-Dixon’s illuminating readings of Caravaggio’s infamous religious paintings create a masterful profile of the controversial artist’s life and work.

Graham-Dixon has presented numerous landmark television series on art for the BBC, including A History of British Art as well as many documentaries on art and artists. Called “the most gifted art critic of his generation” by Robert Hughes, Graham-Dixon is the chief art correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and a contributor to The New Yorker, Apollo, and other publications.

No reservations necessary. Admission to the lecture is free.

After close observation, rigorous research, and original analysis, students design an interactive tour that fosters discussion with visitors in the galleries. Each thirty-minute talk is presented twice over the course of the semester, allowing Museum visitors multiple opportunities to attend.

Scheduled to take place this fall prior to certain Tuesday Evening lectures and on select Saturdays and Sundays, these discussions are free to the public with the price of admission to the galleries and begin in the Museum lobby.

Tuesday, November 1, 6:15 pm
Helen Schenck: “Creating Space: Donald Judd and Jackie Winsor”

Tuesday, November 8, 6:15 pm
Travis Veselka: “Memorial and Nostalgia in the Art of Joseph Cornell and Ed Ruscha”

Saturday, November 12, 11 am
Travis Veselka: “Memorial and Nostalgia in the Art of Joseph Cornell and Ed Ruscha”

Sunday, November 13, 11 am
Helen Schenck: “Between Birth and Death: Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon”

Tuesday, November 15, 6:15 pm
Jessica Ingle: “Celebrities as Collectibles: Pop Art’s Appropriations as Icon Creation”

Saturday, November 19, 11 am
Jessica Ingle: “Celebrities as Collectibles: Pop Art’s Appropriations as Icon Creation”

Lady Godiva (detail) by Anne Whitney, c. 1861-64 (photo courtesy the DMA)

Who Ever Heard of a Woman Sculptor? Nineteenth-Century American Women Sculptors in Rome
Dallas Museum of Art
Thursday, October 27, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.

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.

The widely traveled German sculptor Elizabet Ney, whose studio in Austin, Texas, is today a fascinating museum, was also part of this amazing “white marmorean flock” (Henry James’s acid characterization). Ney sculpted a bust of misogynist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whom she charmed into sitting for her.

Visit the Dallas Museum of Art website for more information.

Reserve tickets online at www.tickets.dallasmuseumofart.org/public.

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Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous major solo and group exhibitions, and his work is represented in many museums and prestigious private and corporate collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Museum of Modem Art in New York City; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; St. Louis Art Museum; Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark; and Musée Beaubourg in Paris. His artwork has been featured in more than 1,000 publications. In addition, Fischl has collaborated with artists and authors such as E. L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten. Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The Naomi Turner True Lecture Series is made possible by a generous grant from the Naomi Turner True Foundation.

Eric Fischl

Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona, where his parents had moved in 1967. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1972. He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978.

Fischl’s suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country-club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. His first New York City solo show was at Edward Thorp Gallery in 1979, during a time when suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. Fischl first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life.

Fischl is currently a Fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the founder, president and lead curator for America: Now and Here. This multidisciplinary exhibition of 150 of America’s most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights and filmmakers is designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts. The project launched in May 2011 in Kansas City with plans to continue a national tour in a roving museum and performance space contained within six 18-wheeler trucks that will travel to communities from coast to coast.

Fischl lives and works in Sag Harbor, New York, with his wife, painter April Gornik.

The Glassell School of Art

The Glassell School of Art is the teaching wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Established in 1927, the school was renamed in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., in 1979, in recognition of his generous gift. The school has a reputation for outstanding training in the fine arts and offers a wide variety of programs and classes for adults and children through its Studio School and Junior School. The Glassell Community Outreach Program serves more than 2,000 individuals, including hospitalized children and hearing and visually impaired people.

The Glassell School of Art (Studio School) is located at 5101 Montrose Boulevard. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Building hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Call 713-639-7500 for more information.

“I tried to write this book in 1972 but it was too emotionally raw then,” King said. “Nearly 40 years later, exploring The Sixth Floor Museum and learning from staff there was critical in helping the book come together.”

In what is expected to be a sell-out event, King will be front and center at a fundraiser at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas on Thursday, November 10, benefiting The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The program begins at 7 p.m. There will be an exclusive reception featuring the author at 5:45 p.m. followed by an interview with King at 7 p.m. The conversation will be facilitated by Dallas columnist and broadcaster Lee Cullum.

While Dallas is one of five stops on the 11/22/63 book tour, it is the only city in which King will participate in a fund raiser. Very seldom does he make public appearances. According to King, “I chose them because touring the Depository was vital for the book, and everyone – from Gary Mack on down – was so helpful.”

Tickets are required and go on sale Wednesday, October 5 at 9:00 a.m. CT. Tickets range from $40 to $250. To learn more about the event or to purchase tickets, visit www.showclix.com/event/stephenking. Or, call 1.888.718.4253. Phone assistance available M-F 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. CT.

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.

In this lecture, Morse will explore the modern experiment of sculpture, as an attempt to come to grips with two polar forces, the classical and the primitive. Highlighting sculpture in the Museum’s collection, Morse will reveal how such dualities as civilization and wilderness provided a fruitful dichotomy for artists to explore new expressive realms.
In 2002, Morse joined the staff of the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he has organized, overseen, or assisted with numerous exhibitions devoted to modern sculpture. His current exhibition and publication projects include Tony Cragg: Seeing Things (through January 8, 2012) and Sightings: Diana Al-Hadid (October 21, 2011–January 15, 2012).

The Royal Collection contains over 485,000 objects collected by the British Royal family from King Henry VIII to the present Queen. In this free lecture, Everett will select approximately 50 of the finest items in the collection to demonstrate its range and magnificence, as well as to show the diverse collecting interests of individual monarchs and other members of the Royal family. The objects include oil paintings, old master drawings, miniature paintings, sculpture, porcelain, gold and silver objects, Fabergé, jewelry, furniture, rare books, and manuscripts.

Everett was librarian of the Royal Library and assistant keeper of the Royal Archives from 1985 to 2002. He has written numerous articles on the Royal Library and the official guidebook to Windsor Castle. He was in the British Diplomatic Service from 1967 to 1978, working in India and Spain, and was assistant private secretary to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, from 1978 to 1980, and private secretary to Diana, Princess of Wales, from 1981 to 1983.

No reservations necessary. Admission to the lecture is free.

These thoughtful explorations of the contemporary art world will provide audiences with a better understanding of visual art dialogues of today. As part of The MAC’s educational outreach initiative The MAC Scholar Lecture Series is free and open to the public.

Lecture Schedule

October 12 from 6-7 p.m.

Dr. Benjamin Lima from the University of Texas Arlington in Arlington, Texas. Dr. Lima’s lecture is titled “Analogies, Archives and Atlases: Hanne Darboven and Cyprien Gaillard.”

October 13 from 6-7 p.m.

Professor Ryder Richards from The Richland College of the Dallas Community College District in Dallas, Texas. Professor Richards will discuss collaborative experimentation.

October 20th from 6-7 p.m.

Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Thistlethwaite’s lecture is titled “Disappearing Acts: When Public Art Goes Away.”

October 26 from 6-7 p.m.

Dr. Eric Stryker from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Stryker will discuss subculture, sexuality, and gender identity in the contemporary art world.

October 27 from 6-7 p.m.

Dr. Jennifer Way from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Dr. Way’s lecture is titled “Back to the Future: Women Art Technology.”

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’s role 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.