Author: Nellie Ruby

The High Museum of Art

March 25 6:30 pm

Related to The Accidental Possibilities of the CIty: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America

Emory University

http://jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu/home/colloquium/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D150432999

February 28, 4:15 pm ONLINE

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University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana [online]

January 28, 6:30 pm EST

https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/6383?eventId=33398244

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Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University

The Designs of Nature: Form, Matter, and the Making of Art in Early Modern Europe

This series of lectures explores the idea of the agency and creativity of a sometimes personified “Nature” in late medieval and early modern Europe. Often seeming to operate with surprising independence from the Christian God, Nature was understood as both a creator of artists and a powerful generator of images that served as inspiration to those same artists. The series of lectures traces a set of ideas that shaped the work of artists and art theorists, scientists and theologians in both northern and southern Europe, looking especially closely at the problem of “figured stones”: stones (some fossils, some not) that seemed to bear mysterious images “made by Nature.” The lectures touch on paintings by Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Andrea Mantegna, along with garden sculptures, architectural ornament, and scientific illustration.

March 22: The Artificious Fire: Nature as Creator in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, https://go.unc.edu/Ld6x4
March 30: Rocks and Stones and Trees, https://go.unc.edu/Yb4t9
April 7: Of Math and Monsters: Nature’s Intentions and Nature’s Play, https://go.unc.edu/c8NKk  
April 15: Signs on the Shore: Art, Nature, and the Human, https://go.unc.edu/Ge9a7

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Harley Ngai Grieco will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursday, January 28, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Imagining the Artifact: Collaging Blue and White Chinese Pottery.”

As a style of porcelain decoration, Chinese blue and white is globally ubiquitous. How did this occur and what are the effects of its pervasive design? Through this inquiry, Harley Ngai Grieco will share her research into the dissemination of Chinese porcelain imagery and its many histories. She will then present on-going artistic projects, which combine her photo-sculptural practice with her current research at the Bard Graduate Center Library.

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This post is excerpted from Bard Graduate Events Center

In his upcoming talk, Cyrus will delve into the role of self-education in his artistic practice, as well as themes of Black American culture and spirituality in the African diaspora.

By Eva Berlin, Digital Content Specialist, High Museum of Art

On February 4, join Cyrus for his Driskell Prize Lecture: “Phylacteries to Repel Ghosts.” He will discuss the important role autodidacticism, or being self-taught, plays within his work and in Black American culture at large.

On February 4, join Cyrus for his Driskell Prize Lecture: “Phylacteries to Repel Ghosts.” He will discuss the important role autodidacticism, or being self-taught, plays within his work and in Black American culture at large.

Reserve tickets today for the Driskell Prize Lecture (February 4, 6 p.m., Zoom).

Encompassing several mediums from object-based to performance art, Cyrus’s work is a form of self-education and is influenced by such subjects as Black American history and political movements, and spiritual and religious traditions within the African diaspora.

This passage is excerpted from Stories of Art from the High Museum