Art Institute Of Chicago Lectures

Tomaz Salamun, renowned Slovenian poet, reads from his works, which reflects the postwar struggles of Eastern Europe. Part of a series called Found in Translation in support of the Associated Writers and Writing Projects conference in Chicago. Presented courtesy of the International Writers' Program, University of Iowa, and the Poetry Foundation. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Edra Soto is a Chicago-based artist who has exhibited internationally and locally. Her paintings, photographs, objects, and installations reflect an interest in pop culture, private mythologies, and draw on her childhood fixation on Puerto Rican superstar Iris Chacón. In this Artists Connect talk, Soto discusses her own work and works by William Blake inspired by Dante Alighieri. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Inge Fiedler, Conservation Microscopist, discusses the technical study of Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 1884, painted between 1884 and 1886. Using an innovative technique commonly called "pointillism," Seurat, who preferred the term "chromo-luminarism," created a masterpiece that still astonishes visitors today. Learn how it was created from someone who has examined the painting very, very closely. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Combining previously unpublished images with scrupulous archival research, this lecture illuminates the ideological nature of the genre and the centrality of race and cultural identity in understanding modern and contemporary portraiture. Powell forcefully supports this argument with evidence drawn from a survey of nineteenth-century portraits, in-depth case studies of the postwar fashion model Donyale Luna and the contemporary portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks, and insightful analyses of images created since the late 1970s. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Andre Garolli, artistic director, and Carla Estafan, producer, of Brazil's Compania Triptal discuss their unique interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's sea plays at the Goodman Theatre. Steve Scott, associate producer at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, hosts. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Erin Hogan, art historian and Director of Public Affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago, introduces her new book Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West. Driving her Volkswagen Jetta solo, Hogan visited and comments on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty by the Great Salt Lake, Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Nevada, and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field in New Mexico. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

The Modern Wing is a complex museum expansion design that tackles age-old museum issues in new ways. Bridget Bush, project manager for the Rise Group, discusses engineering solutions that allow the Modern Wing to effectively use natural light, artificial light, temperature regulation, humidity control, and more. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Dan Devening is an artist, a gallery director, and a teacher at the School of the Art Institute. In this Artists Connect talk, he delves deeply into Matisse's work in the productive years in Nice from 1920-1930, and discusses how these paintings and sculptures have influenced his own artwork. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Meredith Mack, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer at the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses the energy-saving aspects of the Modern Wing’s curtain wall, lighting system, and "flying carpet," as well as its use of local and recycled materials. Her lecture includes the challenges of building a museum that is aiming for LEED Silver certification. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Thomas Gaeghtens, current director of the Getty Research Institute and recent director of the German Center for the History of Art, Paris, reflects on Berlin's encyclopedic National Museums and their history.yclopedic National Museums and their history. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Irish-born poet Paul Muldoon, professor at Princeton University and poetry editor of the New Yorker, reads selections from his Pulitzer prize-winning poetry. Poetry Foundation president John Barr provides an introduction to the poet. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Julia Langbein, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, looks closely at the caricatures of paintings featured in the Salons, the official art exhibitions in Paris, asking how they functioned as both comic and pictorial criticism of the art of their time. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Bruce Boucher, Curator of Sculpture, Medieval to Modern European Paintings and Sculpture, presents a lecture focusing on highlighted treasures in the Art Institute permanent collections. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Nayan Chanda, director of publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, presents the Art Institute of Chicago 2008 Presidential Lecture during the annual Chicago Humanities Festival. His lecture refers to research found in his recent book Bound Together; How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

David Levering Lewis, New York University professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses his new book. The author of seven books and editor of two more, Lewis's narrative reveals how cosmopolitan Muslim al-Andalus flourished while proto-Europe made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Martina Nehrling makes colorful paintings that pulse with an interior rhythm. She says, "When I paint I am sounding out elements of my everyday life, and I am captivated by the richly textured cacophony of disparate events, information, things." Nehrling discusses her own work and the inspiration of Édouard Vuillard, a chronicler of the everyday. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Guy Delmarcel from the University of Louvain provides an introduction to the exhibition The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries. Part of a one-day symposium was made possible through the excluive sponsorship by The De Wit Foundation. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Filip Vermeylen from Eramus Universiteit in Rotterdam provides an introduction to the exhibition The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries. Part of a one-day symposium made possible through the exclusive sponsorship by The De Wit Foundation. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Francois Pascal Bertrand from the University of Bordeaux provides an introduction to the exhibition The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries. Part of a one-day symposium made possible through the exclusive sponsorship by The De Wit Foundation. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.

Elizabeth Cleland from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York provides an introduction to the exhibition The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries. Part of a one-day symposium made possible through the exclusive sponsorship by The De Wit Foundation. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast. Explore more at ancientartpodcast.org.