Lectures & Conversations Fall and Winter 2010–2011
Mar 25, 2016
Lectures & ConversationsFall and Winter 2010–2011
The Dallas Museum of Art presents a stimulating
season of programs exploring art from around the
world and throughout time with distinguished artists,
scholars, and artistic leaders. Visit us online at
DallasMuseumofArt.org for more information about
these and other upcoming events.
Unless otherwise noted, lecture tickets are included in general
admission to the Museum; DMA members FREE.
Reserve your seat online at DallasMuseumofArt.org/Tickets
or by phone at 214-922-1818.
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Fine and Decorative Art, Friends of Modern
and Contemporary Art, and Friends of
World Art and Archaeology. Friends
receive free or discounted admission to
all lectures, invitations to receptions, and
opportunities to meet artists and speakers
more personally. For more information
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Friends groups, contact a membership
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The Boshell Family Lecture Series on Archaeology The Boshell series features internationally recognized archaeologists, historians,
and authors working at the forefront of archaeological research. The series is
made possible by the Boshell Family Foundation and the DMA’s Boshell Lecture
Series Endowment Fund.
The Richard R. Brettell Lecture SeriesThis series brings notable scholars of 19th- and 20th-century European art to
present new research and fresh interpretations of the Museum’s modern master-
works. The series was created with a gift from Carolyn and Roger Horchow in
honor of Dr. Richard Brettell, former DMA Director and an eminent scholar of
19th-century French art.
Exhibition Lectures
From medieval treasures to magnificent African masks, the Museum will present
an array of dynamic special exhibitions this fall. Local, national, and international
speakers will share their insights on these exciting works of art. See page 13 in
this brochure for more information on special exhibitions on view this season.
Late Night Lectures
Join us on the third Friday of each month, when the Museum is open until
midnight. Each Late Night offers hundreds of experiences for visitors of all ages,
including talks by artists, scholars, and special guests.
State of the Arts
Join KERA host and producer Jeff Whittington to explore the creative process and
the future of the city’s cultural landscape with Dallas’s key artistic leaders.
Art and Ritual
This Saturday lecture series explores the provocative relationship between art,
architecture, and ritual, from antiquity to contemporary culture, and presents
new and interesting perspectives from artists, art historians, and curators.
Arts & Letters Live
A celebration of the literary and performing arts featuring acclaimed authors,
actors, illustrators, musicians, and more
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Art and Ritual
Ritual, Art, and Theater in Mexican CelebrationsSaturday, September 11, 2:00 p.m.
Join Sara Cardona, artist and Instructor of
Humanities at Richland College, and Cora
Cardona, co-founder and Artistic Director
of Teatro Dallas, to learn more about the
role art and theater play as expressions
of ritual and sacrifice during the Days
of the Dead in Mexico, one of the oldest
continuous holidays celebrated on
our continent.
Late Night Lecture
Friday, September 17, 7:00 p.m.
José Guadalupe Posada and His Influence on Mexican Art
Although he died poor and unknown,
Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada
is now considered the most influential
Mexican artist of the beginning of the
20th century; Diego Rivera and José
Clemente Orozco, among many others,
credit Posada’s influence on their own
work. Join Dr. Ron Tyler, Director of
the Amon Carter Museum, to discover
the work of this prolific and
exceptional artist.
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Late Night Lecture
Friday, September 17, 9:00 p.m.
Homero Aridjis Presented in partnership with the Center for Translation Studies at UT Dallas
Join poet Homero Aridjis for a discussion and reading of his work, which
explores political consciousness, Mexico’s cultural heritage, and environmental
concerns. Considered one of Latin America’s greatest living writers, Aridjis is
also known for his pioneering work as an environmental activist and for
his ambassadorial appointments. Aridjis’s books of poetry and prose have been
translated into more than a dozen languages, and he is the recipient of a
number of important literary prizes.
State of the Arts
Trenton Doyle Hancock and Jaap van Zweden
Wednesday, September 22, 7:30 p.m.
Join Jeff Whittington for a thought-provoking conversation with
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Artist
Jaap van Zweden Music Director, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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Arts & Letters Live Special Event
Sara Gruen
Tuesday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants (both a word-of-
mouth success and a New York Times #1 Best Seller), will
discuss this book as well as her forthcoming novel, Ape
House, the story of a family of Bonobo apes who are cast
in a reality TV show and get caught up in a media storm.
6:30 p.m. Join DMA curator Dr. Roslyn A. Walker for a
pre-event tour of the exhibition African Masks: The Art
of Disguise.
ticket prices:
$37 Full
$32 Reduced
$15 Student
Photo: Lynne Harty Photography
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State of the Arts
Kevin Moriarty and Anne Pasternak
Thursday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.
Join Jeff Whittington for a thought-
provoking conversation with
Kevin Moriarty
Artistic Director, Dallas Theater Center
Anne Pasternak
President and Artistic Director,
Creative Time
Late Night Lecture
Splendors of the Burgundian CourtFriday, October 15, 7:00 p.m.
The Burgundian dukes of the 14th and 15th
centuries were renowned for the splendor
of their court and the superlative quality
of artworks they commissioned to express
their power and taste. The mourners from
the tomb of John the Fearless are exemplary
objects of the ducal patronage. Join art his-
torian and author Dr. Marina Belozerskaya
to explore other arts—goldwork, tapestries,
manuscripts, music, and multimedia pag-
eants—that made the Burgundian dukes the
preeminent rulers of the early Renaissance.
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ART in October
This October, join the DMA and the entire Dallas Arts District as we shine
a spotlight on the arts and launch a new season of exciting performances,
exhibitions, events, and programs. Spotlighted events include the Opening
Celebration on Saturday, October 2, and the Family Celebration on Sunday,
October 31, celebrating the art of disguise and costume. Also, join us on
Sunday October 10, for an exclusive Membership Day, when your Dallas
Museum of Art membership card will allow you FREE entrance to the Crow
Collection and Nasher Sculpture Center.
For a schedule of activities, visit TheDallasArtsDistrict.org.
Arts & Letters Live: C3 Special Event
Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From
Tuesday, October 19, 7:00 p.m.
Where Good Ideas Come From addresses one of the most crucial
questions facing us as a society and as individuals: how do
we generate more of the innovative ideas that allow us to
advance in our personal lives, our careers, and our culture?
Steven Johnson is one of today’s most respected public
intellectuals. This book is a must-read for creative people
of all types.
ticket prices:
$25 Full
$20 Reduced
$10 Student
Art and Ritual
Art and Life in Africa: Masks Give the Spirits Life
Saturday, October 23, 2:00 p.m.
Be transported to Burkina Faso, in West Africa, where people in rural farming
towns use masks in performances to make the spirits of nature visible. These
spirits control the forces of nature, bring good rains and abundant crops,
and protect the villagers from accidents and disease. Join prominent scholar
Dr. Christopher D. Roy, Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa,
who has been studying masks in West Africa for forty years.
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Exhibition Lecture
Sculptural Innovation at the Court of Burgundy: Artists, Patrons, and Imagery
Thursday, November 4, 7:30 p.m.
Join art historian and author Dr. Sherry
Lindquist to investigate the medieval
masterworks from the tomb of John the
Fearless, Duke of Burgundy from 1404 to
1419. This elaborate tomb is among the
most important examples of Burgundian
art and is part of an artistic program com-
missioned by the Valois dukes to express
both their power and religious devotion.
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Brettell Lecture
Rodin, His Collectors, and The Gates of HellThursday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.
In 1880 Auguste Rodin was asked to
create a monumental decorative portal,
The Gates of Hell. Depicting a scene from
Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy,
the work contains almost 200 figures,
which Rodin sculpted individually; he
also imagined ways to transform these
figures to create entirely new works.
Three important sculptures by Rodin
in the DMA’s Wendy and Emery Reves
Collection are products of this creative
process. Antoinette Le Normand-
Romain, former curator of the
Musée Rodin in Paris, illuminates
these works, created for Rodin’s
most important patrons.
Arts & Letters Live: exclusive member event
Stacy Schiff: CleopatraThursday, November 18, 7:30 p.m.
Stacy Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov),
which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography. She
will talk about her highly anticipated new biography,
Cleopatra, due for release by Little, Brown and Company
this fall and scheduled to be made into a film starring
Angelina Jolie as Egypt’s notorious Queen of the Nile.
This event is open to DMA members only;
tickets are FREE. NOT A MEMBER? Don’t miss this great
opportunity—become one today!
Pre-order your copy of Cleopatra for pick-up on the
night of the event. Members will enjoy an additional
20% discount during Member Appreciation Week!c
For reservations, to order books, or for more informa-
tion, call 214-922-1247 or e-mail membership@Dallas
MuseumofArt.org. Limit two tickets per membership.
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State of the Arts
Graeme Jenkins and Special Guest
Thursday, November 11, 7:30 p.m.
Join Jeff Whittington for a thought-
provoking conversation with
Graeme Jenkins
Music Director, Dallas Opera
Special Guest To be announced
FPO
Late Night Lecture
Artist Talk: Renée Stout
Friday, November 19, 9:00 p.m.
Renée Stout is an internationally renowned
artist whose works explore themes of
self-exploration, empowerment, and
healing and draw from the belief systems
and artistic traditions of Africa and the
African Diaspora. In addition to the
Dallas Museum of Art, Stout is represented
in the collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the National Gallery of
Art, and the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, among many others.
Photo: Mary Noble Ours
Member Appreciation WeekNovember 15–20
Each year the DMA reserves a special week just for members. Member
Appreciation Week will kick off with Members Monday. Enjoy a scavenger
hunt, take a tour, be the first to shop the second annual DMA Estate Sale
in the Museum Store, and more! Activities are planned throughout the week,
including special lectures and conversations especially for members. Not a
DMA member? Visit DallasMuseumofArt.org or call 214-922-1247 to join today!
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Art and Ritual
Art, Death, and Commemoration in the Burgundian Netherlands
Saturday, November 20, 2:00 p.m.
Join Dr. Douglas Brine, Assistant
Professor of Art History at Trinity
University, to examine the roles
played by works of art in the
Netherlands at the time of the Valois
dukes. This lecture will consider the
spectacular tomb of John the Fearless
in the context of other funerary
monuments made for his relations,
his successors, and his subjects during
a period when Burgundian art was
internationally renowned for its
splendor and innovation.
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Boshell Lecture
Uncorking the PastThursday, December 9, 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Patrick McGovern, Scientific Director of
the Penn Museum’s Biomolecular Archaeology
Laboratory, presents the fascinating history
of wine, from ancient Phoenicia and Egypt, to
Crete, Etruria, and on to medieval France.
After the lecture, sample wines from the
celebrated Burgundy region of France, whose
wines have become models for the rest of
the world.
ticket prices:
$50 Full
$40 Reduced
The Seventh Annual Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture
“Beguiling Deception”: Allegorical Portraiture in Early 18th-Century France
Thursday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
In 18th-century France, fashionable patrons
commissioned “allegorical portraits,” which
showed their subjects as classical goddess-
es, muses, or other mythological figures.
Join Dr. Kathleen Nicholson, Professor of
Art History at the University of Oregon, to
investigate Nicolas de Largillière’s charm-
ing portrait of the Countess of Montsoreau
and her sister as the goddess Diana and
an attendant.
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State of the Arts
Annette Lawrence and Charles Wylie
Thursday, January 13, 7:30 p.m.
Join Jeff Whittington for a thought-
provoking conversation with
Annette Lawrence
Artist
Charles Wylie
The Lupe Murchison Curator
of Contemporary Art at the
Dallas Museum of Art and
member of the art council
México 200In celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence, the Dallas Museum of Art presents two special exhibitions of modern Mexican art.
José Guadalupe Posada: The Birth of Mexican Modernism June 18–December 26, 2010
Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper June 18, 2010–January 9, 2011
African Masks: The Art of Disguise August 22, 2010–February 13, 2011
This exhibition of more than seventy objects will reveal the beauty, function, and meaning of African masks.
Encountering SpaceSeptember 25, 2010–Fall 2012
The second exhibition to be featured in the Museum’s groundbreaking Center for Creative Connections gallery, Encountering Space presents works of art from both Western and non-Western collections at the Museum and asks visitors to consider how space is used to invite engagement, raise questions, and create meaning.
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of BurgundyOctober 3, 2010–January 2, 2011
Heralded by the New York Times as a crowning achievement, this exhibition presents some of the most significant examples of medieval Burgundian sculpture.
Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program December 5, 2010–March 27, 2011
In celebration of Super Bowl XLV, to be held in Dallas on February 6, 2011, this exhibition features works by the artists represented in the contem-porary art program at the spectacular new Cowboys Stadium.
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement February 13–May 8, 2011
Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, this exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of one of the leading figures of the American Arts & Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley.
Also on view, don’t miss Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio (January 30–July 17, 2011).
2010–2011 Exhibitions
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The series is supported by the Boshell Family Foundation and the DMA’s
Boshell Lecture Series Endowment Fund.
The series is supported by The Richard R. Brettell Lecture
Series Endowment Fund.
The Seventh Annual Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture is made possible through the generosity of
the Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation.
Hotel accommodations for Lectures and Conversations provided by The Adolphus.
Promotional support for Lectures and Conversations provided by WRR Classical 101.1 FM.
Promotional support for the State of the Arts lecture series is provided by
The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and
by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission
on the Arts.
image credits
cover: Isaac Soyer, Art Beauty Shoppe (detail), 1934, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the
Public Works of Art Project, 1935.7
inside (details): José Guadalupe Posada, Surprising Miracle (Sorprendente milagro), 1893, relief print,
anonymous loan; José Guadalupe Posada, A Lounge Lizard Skeleton (Calavera de un logartijo), n.d., relief print,
anonymous loan; Máximo Pacheco, The Zócalo (El Zócalo), c. 1920–1950, tempura on paper, Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase, 1951.103; Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moiturier, Mourner No.
72, 1443–56/57, alabaster, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon. Photo © FRAME (French Regional and American
Museum Exchange) by Jared Bendis and François Jay; Elephant mask (mbap mteng), Cameroon, Bamileke
peoples, 1920–30, palm leaf fiber textile, cotton textile, glass beads, and palm leaf ribs, Dallas Museum
of Art, Textile Purchase Fund, 1991.54.1; Auguste Rodin, I Am Beautiful (Je suis belle), 1882, bronze, Dallas
Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, 1985.R.66; Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le
Moiturier, Mourner No. 55, 1443–56/57; Renée Stout, Fetish #1, 1987, monkey hair, nails, beads, cowrie
shells, and coins, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Roslyn and Brooks Fitch, Gary Houston, Pamela Ice,
Sharon and Lazette Jackson, Maureen McKenna, Aaronetta and Joseph Pierce, Matilda and Hugh
Robinson, and Rosalyn Story in honor of Virginia Wardlaw, 1989.128; Jean de la Huerta and Antoine
le Moiturier, Mourner No. 51, 1443–56/57; Pietro Paolini, Bacchic Concert, c. 1625–30, oil on canvas, Dallas
Museum of Art, The Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Collection, gift of the Hoblitzelle Foundation, 1987.17;
Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait of the Comtesse de Montsoreau and Sister as Diana and an Attendant, 1714, oil on
canvas, lent by the Michael R. Rosenberg Foundation, 29.2004.11; José Guadalupe Posada, Dandy Skeleton
(Calavera catrina), n.d., relief print, anonymous loan; Raul Anguiano, Head (Cabeza), 1944, lithograph,
Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Pan American Round Table #1, 1947.39; Mask (Mukenga), Democratic
Republic of the Congo, mid-20th century, raffia, wood, cowrie shells, beads, parrot feathers, and goat
hair, Dallas Museum of Art, gift in honor of Peter Hanszen Lynch and Cristina Martha Frances Lynch,
1998.11; Robert Delaunay, Eiffel Tower, 1924, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Meadows
Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.105, © L&M Services, Amsterdam; Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le
Moiturier, Mourner No. 51, 1443–56/57; Olafur Eliasson, The outside of inside, 2008, projectors, spotlights,
color-filter foil, stainless steel, and control unit, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction
Fund, 2009.1.a–aa, © 2008 Olafur Eliasson; Gustav Stickley, Electric Lantern No. 777, c. 1908, copper and
glass, Crab Tree Farm
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