fall 2015 talks | events | film
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fall 2015 talks | events | film
MAJOR SPONSORS: 100 B-DAY YEAR PRESENTED BY: GENEROUS SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: LEAD SPONSOR: MEDIA PARTNER: “Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh” is organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and The National Gallery, London. Minneapolis Institute of Art 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404 FALL 2015 TALKS | EVENTS | FILM Talks September 12 Art for Life’s Sake: The Life of Emma Roberts September 27 Opening-Weekend Talks: Beyond Measure: Gifts from Mary Griggs Burke Events October 23 Durades Dialogue: Renée Stout & Hawona Sullivan Janzen October 24 Monsters & Vision in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean Changed Times: Sources & Methods behind 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints October 29 Japanese Modernism & Itō Shinsui: Paintings & Prints October 1 Newman Lecture on Photography: Simen Johan November 7 Delacroix Unframed October 4 The Mary Ann Butterfield Lecture: Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV October 18 Eugène Delacroix & Modernity Ticketing BY PHONE To purchase or reserve tickets by phone, call the Museum Hotline: (612) 870-3000. Open Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Thursday & Friday 9 a.m. to 8:45 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. November 22 The Agnes Lynch Anderson and Roger Anderson Lecture: Gauguin’s Search for His Father: Delacroix as Gauguin’s Most Important Source September 19 Annual Members’ Day October 24 Art + Feminism Mia Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Thursday, September 24 Thursday, October 22 Thursday, December 3 Art Illuminating Human Rights Series Film November 13 Screening & Discussion: ‘Always Becoming’ with Nora Naranjo Morse Class Tuesday, October 13 Tuesday, December 1 Hands-on Art History All talks, even free talks or those free for members, require tickets. You may purchase or reserve tickets online, by phone, or at the museum. ONLINE You may order or reserve tickets online anytime, day or night, through the ticketing service at >> tickets.artsmia.org. Questions? [email protected] AT THE MUSEUM To purchase or reserve tickets in person, come to the Ask Mia desk in the Third Avenue lobby during regular museum hours. Assistive listening devices available with support from: Talks ART FOR LIFE’S SAKE: THE LIFE OF EMMA ROBERTS Saturday, September 12, 11 a.m. Presenters: Sue Leaf & Kathy Allen $10; $5 Mia members, free for Library Affinity Group members Join Minnesota author Sue Leaf for a talk about the life and work of Emma Roberts, a Minneapolis artist of the 1870s who became a renowned arts educator in the public schools. Trained in Manhattan, Roberts founded the Handicraft Guild, highlighted artwork of Minneapolis school children at international art congresses, and pioneered art education at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her brother, Thomas Sadler Roberts, was a Bell Museum curator, author of Birds of Minnesota, and later the husband of Agnes Williams, who collaborated with Emma on a series of wildflower watercolor paintings. Following Leaf’s talk, Kathy Allen will discuss the discovery of previously unknown watercolors by artists Roberts and Williams, found in the Arboretum’s collection. Sue Leaf is the author of A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts, a 2014 Minnesota Book Award finalist. Kathy Allen is head of the Andersen Horticultural Library at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Cover and below: Emma Roberts, Nelumbo Great Yellow (detail), 1885, Collection of Anderson Horticultural Library, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Talks These talks celebrate the openings of two exhibitions: “Gifts of Japanese and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection” and “Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection.” OPENING-WEEKEND TALKS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 $10; $5 Mia members, free for Asian Art Affinity Group members BEYOND MEASURE: GIFTS FROM MARY GRIGGS BURKE 2 p.m. Presenter: Matthew Welch From the 1950s until her death in 2012, Saint Paul native Mary Griggs Burke amassed one of the most important private collections of Japanese art in the West. Renowned for its remarkable quality and breadth, the collection encompasses artworks from ancient times to the present day, including Buddhist and Shinto art, calligraphy, ceramics, lacquer, metalwork, and paintings by masters of every school active in pre-modern Japan. A substantial portion of the Burke Collection has been given to Mia by the Burke Foundation and will debut in the galleries this weekend. Matthew Welch, PhD, is Deputy Director & Chief Curator at Mia. His specialty is Japanese and Korean art with particular emphasis on Edo period and Zen painting. Generous support for “Gifts of Japanese and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection” provided by the Gale Family Endowment. CHANGED TIMES: SOURCES & METHODS BEHIND 20TH-CENTURY JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS 3 p.m. Presenter: Andreas Marks Shin hanga, the “new print,” developed 100 years ago as an art movement aiming to revive the ideal world of seductive women, the magic of the kabuki theater, and the thrilling pulse of urban life that characterized traditional woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. Produced by time-honored methods, the new prints spoke to a nostalgia for a long past milieu. Yet the artists who designed shin hanga inhabited a world radically different from that of ukiyo-e artists and had distinctly different processes for creating imagery. Andreas Marks will discuss the sources and methods used in making these new prints. Andreas Marks, PhD, is Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Japanese and Korean Art Department Head, and Director of the Clark Center at Mia. He is the author of the exhibition catalogue Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection. Generous support for the exhibition catalogue, Seven Masters: 20th Century Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection, is provided by Ellen Wells. NEWMAN LECTURE ON PHOTOGRAPHY: SIMEN JOHAN Thursday, October 1, 6:30 p.m. $10; $5 Mia members, free for Photography & New Media and Contemporary Affinity Group members Simen Johan (born 1973) is a Norwegian contemporary artist, photographer, and sculptor living in New York City. In an interview with National Geographic, Johan said, “Some of my work emulates traditional nature photography, and there’s some intended irony in that. But there’s also sincerity, because I really do enjoy making beautiful images of nature. Beauty alone, though, doesn’t echo my experience of the world, which is more complex and multilayered, so in my versions of ‘nature photography’ I also incorporate darker qualities. ... The work is multilayered and open-ended, with biblical as well as political references scattered throughout, but ultimately it’s a visceral response that I’m after.” Co-presented with Bethel University Galleries, where Until the Kingdom Comes is on exhibit in its Olson Gallery, Sept. 7–Dec. 18. Generous support provided by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation. Simen Johan, Untitled #181, from the series Until the Kingdom Comes, 2015, digital chromogenic print. © Simen Johan, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, The Margurite S. McNally Endowment for Art Acquisition, 2015.42 Talks EUGÈNE DELACROIX & MODERNITY Sunday, October 18, 2 p.m. Presenter: Patrick Noon $10; $5 Mia members, free for Paintings Affinity Group members At the time of his death in 1863, Eugène Delacroix was the most revered artist in Paris. Succeeding generations of painters persisted in paying homage to his achievements and in exploring his aesthetic theories. If he was often described as the last painter of the Grand Style, he was equally one of the first modern masters and arguably the most influential artist of his epoch. Paul Signac, in his seminal treatise D’Eugène Delacroix au Néo-Impressionnisme, credited this genius of Romanticism with liberating color and technique irrevocably from traditional rules and practice, while Paul Cézanne famously observed, “We all paint in Delacroix’s language.” This lecture will present an overview of how and why this was so. Patrick Noon is Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and curator of the exhibition “Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh,” on view through January 10, 2016. Eugène Delacroix, Lion Hunt (detail), 1860/61, Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.404. The Mary Ann Butterfield Lecture WOVEN GOLD: TAPESTRIES OF LOUIS XIV Sunday, October 4, 2 p.m. Presenter: Charissa Bremer-David $10; $5 Mia members, free for Decorative Arts, Textiles & Sculpture Affinity Group members Colorful and glittering tapestries, handwoven after designs by the most renowned artists, were the ultimate expression of status, power, taste, and wealth. As collector, heir, and patron, Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) vastly augmented the prestigious French royal collection of tapestries. Displayed within his palaces while in residence and in outdoor courtyards on feast days, these monumental hangings embodied and proclaimed his magnificence. Charissa Bremer-David, curator of a major international loan exhibition opening at the Getty Museum in December, will preview this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition that consists largely of rare loans from the French state. Charissa Bremer-David, curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the Getty Museum, organized “Woven Gold,” the first major tapestry show in the western United States in over 40 years. Workshop of Maurice I Dubout (French, active 1606–11), cartoon by Henri Lerambert (French, about 1540/1550– 1608) after Antoine Caron (French, 1521–99). A Chariot of Triumph Drawn by Four Piebald Horses, about 1606–07, tapestry: wool and silk. Courtesy of the Mobilier National, France. Photograph by Mary Noble Ours Protoattic Amphora (detail), image of Medusa in the form of a cauldron, 7th c. BCE, Archaeological Museum, Eleusis, Greece Talks Durades Dialogue RENÉE STOUT & HAWONA SULLIVAN JANZEN Friday, October 23, 6:30 p.m. $10; $5 MIA members, free for African Art and Contemporary Affinity Group members Co-presented with Obsidian. Renée Stout uses imagery from African traditions, popular culture, and personal politics to create images and objects in a variety of media. Stout confronts difficult realities in her personal life and attempts to better understand the human condition as well as reflecting on the relationship of African art to her practice. After a short visual presentation by Stout, she will be joined by Hawona Sullivan Janzen for a dialogue on her work. Renée Stout was one of six finalists for the seventh annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2012) and a recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize (2010). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the National Gallery of Art, all in Washington, D.C.; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art. Hawona Sullivan Janzen is the gallery curator and coordinator for the Witness Creative Writing Program at the University of Minnesota’s Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC). MONSTERS & VISION IN THE PRE-CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN Saturday, October 24, 11 a.m. Presenter: Nassos Papalexandrou Free, but tickets required. Co-presented with the Archeological Institute of America. The visual apparatus of orientalizing cauldrons introduced radically new technologies of visual engagement in the pre-classical Mediterranean of the 7th century BCE. Hitherto the orientalizing innovation has been understood in terms of the wholesale importation or adaptation of objects, techniques, and iconographies from the Near East. The speaker, Nassos Papalexandrou, proposes instead that change was ushered in by a radical shift in ways of seeing and interacting with what today we call “art.” The new technologies of visual engagement (new ways of seeing and being seen) he explores reshaped the cognitive and aesthetic apparatus of viewing subjects. Nassos Papalexandrou, PhD, teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece, was published in 2005. He is working on a second book that explores the role of monsters in the arts and rituals of Early Greece. He is also involved in two projects that have to do with the archaeology of ancient Italy. Eugène Delacroix, Convulsionists of Tangiers (detail), 1837–38, oil on canvas, Bequest of J. Jerome Hill, 73.42.3 Talks Itō Shinsui; Published by Watanabe Shōzaburō, Japanese, 1898–1972, Woman Looking at a Mirror (detail), July 1916, woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Gift of Ellen and Fred Wells, 2002.161.205 JAPANESE MODERNISM & ITŌ SHINSUI: PAINTINGS & PRINTS Thursday, October 29, 6:30 p.m. Presenter: Chiaki Ajioka $10; $5 Mia members, free for Asian Art Affinity Group members Modernism in Japanese art began around 1910. As information on Western art and literature was increasingly available, young artists in Tokyo and Kyoto/Osaka region became engaged in experimental projects that reflected the rapidly changing urban environment and new ways of seeing and thinking. The young Itō Shinsui developed his approach to art absorbing these events around him. Related to the current exhibition “Seven Masters: 20th-century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection,” this talk will consider Shinsui’s painting and print design in the context of Japanese modernism. Chiaki Ajioka, PhD, is a Japanese art historian and consultant currently serving as a board member at the Australia-Japan Foundation in Sydney, Australia. Ajioka contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue, Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection. DELACROIX UNFRAMED: A STUDY DAY Saturday, November 7, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. $80, $64 Mia members; includes all talks, lunch, and materials Here’s an opportunity to immerse yourself in the life and work of Eugène Delacroix. Held in conjunction with “Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh,” on view through January 10, 2016, this half-day program will provide a multidisciplinary, in-depth look at the artist’s work. Programming includes a lecture by National Gallery curator Chris Riopelle, followed by a Moroccan-inspired luncheon with talk on Delacroix’s Orientalism by the exhibition’s curator Patrick Noon, the Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of Paintings at Mia. Rounding out the event is a special musical performance exploring Delacroix’s friendship with Chopin, presented in partnership with MacPhail Center for Music. See website for schedule and full details. Talks Events ANNUAL MEMBERS’ DAY Saturday, September 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Paul Gauguin, I Raro Te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) (detail), 1893, oil on canvas, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, 41.4 Ticketing: • 3 sessions, Keynote Luncheon, Town Hall & Social Hour: $65 • 3 sessions, Town Hall & Social Hour: $15 • Town Hall & Social Hour: Free, but registration is required. Talks for the day include “Van Gogh and Nature,” by Richard Kendall, curator at large, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and “Food as Design,” by University of Minnesota professor Barry Kudrowitz. Accessibility is always at the heart of Mia’s mission. And our new free membership level has opened the museum’s doors in exciting new ways. To extend that welcome, we’re offering a new take on the members’ annual meeting, one that deepens access to the museum and engages members in a dynamic conversation. This is your chance to experience a daylong deep dive about the business of art. This day is all about art, with talks by art experts, artmaking activities, a keynote by Kaywin Feldman, Duncan and Nivin MacMillan Director and President of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a town-hall meeting, and a social-hour wrap-up. The Agnes Lynch Anderson and Roger Anderson Lecture GAUGUIN’S SEARCH FOR HIS FATHER: DELACROIX AS GAUGUIN’S MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE Sunday, November 22, 2 p.m. Presenter: Richard R. Brettell $10; $5 Mia members, free for Painting Affinity Group members Paul Gauguin was only 1 when his father died and 15 when Eugène Delacroix died—and, in many ways, the future artist grew up without a father, artistic or actual. Like Paul Cezanne, he tried to place Camille Pissarro in both roles. But, as Gauguin aged in Tahiti and the Marquesas, Delacroix began to assume that role in his work. This talk will examine the myriad ways in which Gauguin channeled Delacroix—both his life and his work—to create a modernism with deep psychological and artistic roots. Richard R. Brettell, PhD, is founding director of The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, and the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair and co-Director, CISM (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums), at the University of Texas at Dallas. ART ILLUMINATING HUMAN RIGHTS An Events Series from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and The Advocates for Human Rights Programs are free, but registration is required. Thursday, September 24 6 p.m. Gallery Talk: Art & Civil Rights Thursday, October 22 6 p.m. Gallery Talk: Art & Stories Thursday, December 3 6 p.m. Gallery Talk: Art & Identity 7 p.m. Talk: Jonathan Odell, author of Ms. Hazel and the Rosa Parks League, with author and scholar Duchess Harris 7 p.m. Performance: poetry and music 7 p.m. Reading & Conversation: LGBTI authors and poets Events Eva Gonzales, Lady with a Fan (detail), 1869–70, pastel, 72.81, Gift of Bruce B. Dayton, 72.81 Film SCREENING & DISCUSSION: ALWAYS BECOMING’ WITH NORA NARANJO MORSE Friday, November 13, 7 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium Presenter: Nora Naranjo Morse $10; $5 Mia members, free for Native American Affinity Group members Documentarian Nora Naranjo Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo, will introduce her film, Always Becoming, a 30-minute documentary revealing the construction and concepts behind five ephemeral sculptures she built at the National Museum of the American Indian in 2007. The five figures—Father, Mother, Little One, Moon Woman, and Mountain Bird—come from Santa Clara Pueblo oral traditions. Designed to melt back into the earth, these sculptures were made with organic material and built by indigenous people from the United States and Mexico. The film addresses contemporary Native issues and the creative process of making art inspired by indigenous culture. Class HANDS-ON ART HISTORY $35, $28 Mia members; includes all materials and light refreshments. • Tuesday, October 13, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Japanese Silk Painting • Tuesday, December 1, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Delacroix’s Brushstrokes ART + FEMINISM MIA WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON Saturday, October 24, noon–4 p.m. Target Wing Atrium, Library & Friends Community Room Free, but tickets required. Join the Library Affinity Group’s campaign to improve coverage of women artists in Wikipedia. No Wikipedia experience necessary; training sessions at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. for newcomers. Please bring your own laptop! Library resources will be on hand for researching artists in the museum’s collection. Please note: The library will be open Thursday evenings October 1, 8, 15 & 22 for research in preparation for submission of new material or for those wishing to set up a Wikipedia personal account. They say learning a new skill helps keep the mind sharp. Boost your brainpower by getting hands-on with art history. We’ll start by taking a closer look at artist materials and processes to deepen your understanding of styles and techniques. Then you’ll try your own hand at making a masterpiece. No previous art experience necessary. Hashimoto Gahō, 1866–99, Chōkarō Sennin Releasing His Mule from a Gourd (detail), Gift of Libby and Bill Clark in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2014.110