ATL ART
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Mood Ring Virtual Q+A: Artist Talk
BURNAWAY Thu, September 16, 2021 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT ONLINE event Register Add to calendar Mood Ring artists Alexis Childress, Parker Thornton, and Matthew Flores will join Burnaway in an hour-long Q+A and Artist Talk via Zoom.
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Press Here Virtual Event
Join us Wednesday, March 31 on Zoom for a virtual studio visit and discussion by Press Here artists Tracey Murrell and Cassidy Russell. RSVP here for the zoom.
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THE ACCIDENTAL POSSIBILITIES OF THE CITY: CLAES OLDENBURG’S URBANISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA
KATHERINE SMITH IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNEH BIEBER Event date: Monday, March 1, 2021 – 7:30pm to 9:00pm Charis and Agnes Scott College welcome Professor Katherine Smith in conversation with Susanneh Bieber for a celebration of Smith’s groundbreaking study of the sculptor, Claes Oldenburg: The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis’ virtual event platform. Register here. Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city…
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Katherine Smith––In the Streets with Claes Oldenburg
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
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Kevin Beasley –– Race, Social Justice, and Contemporary African American Art
Emory University http://jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu/home/colloquium/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D150432999 February 28, 4:15 pm ONLINE Flier Beasley’s bio Register in advance (see flier)
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Claire Bishop–Déjà Vu: Contemporary Art About Modernist Architecture
University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana [online] January 28, 6:30 pm EST https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/6383?eventId=33398244 Requires advance registration
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The Designs of Nature: Form, Matter, and the Making of Art in Early Modern Europe
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…
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Imagining the Artifact: Harley Ngai Grieco
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. LINK TO REGISTER This post is excerpted from Bard Graduate Events Center
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Meet James Cyrus (HIGH MUSEUM)
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…
