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Art Institute of Chicago Lectures — 220 episodes
Bertrand Goldberg with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner in Chicago, 1965
Van Gogh—The Life
Exposure—Matt Keegan
Exposure—Heather Rasmussen
Sustaining Fellows Exhibition Opening: Windows on the War—Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945
Artists Connect: Joyce Owens Connects with Marc Chagall
Byzantine Reliquary Pendants
Seeing Things: John Marin's Watercolors
Objects Speak Back
Sustaining Fellows Annual Meeting
Woven Traditions: Asante and Ewe Textiles
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Louis Kaplan)
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Sophie Hackett)
Changing Face, Changing Place—A History of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Abigail Solomon-Godeau)
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (David Campany)
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Heather Diack)
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Jason Hill)
Artist Talk—An-My Le
Horace Pippin's Cabin in the Cotton
Arms and Armor—Harding's Castle and Collection
Artists Connect: Isak Applin Connects with Giovanni di Paolo
The Poison King's Things: Mithradates the Great
Lygia Clark: A Laboratory for the End of Art
The Lingam Made Flesh: Split-Level Symbolism in Hindu Art
Completing the Process: The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan
Experiencing Sullivan
From Photograph and Fragment to History
John Szarkowski's Photography and the Work of Louis Sullivan
Living with Richard Nickel
Louis Sullivan and the Development of Architectural Ornament
Artists Connect: Georgina Valverde Connects with a Talismanic Textile
Lewis Baltz and the Postwar American Landscape
Object Theory, Picture Theory, and the Photographs of Lewis Baltz
Themes in Lewis Baltz' Work
The Dynamics of Modern Drawing
Suzanne McCullagh in Conversation with Richard Gray
Poussin, Drawing, and the Antique
French Drawings: From Vouet to Ingres
From Public to Private: Drawing in France, 1850-1900
Museums vs. Private Collectors: The Role of Personal Taste in Acquisitions
Bernard O'Kane on Persian Architecture
Lindsay Allen on Arthur Pope and Early Persian Art
Donald Whitcomb on Archaeological Methodology of the 1920s and 1920s
Jonathan Bloom on the Life and Times of Arthur Pope
Keynote: Arthur Pope and a New Survey of Persian Art
Yuka Kadoi on Arthur Pope and Later Persian Art
Sheila Blair on the Future of Persian Art Studies
Saving Italian Drawings: From the Frying Pan to the History of Art
Gerhard Richter—A Life in Painting
Exhibit the Collection
How to Survive Civilization, or What I Have Learned from Dada
African Art and the Modernist Eye
How Chinese Art Became "Contemporary"
Andreas Fischer Connects with Courbet
Conversation with Maestro Boulez
The 20th-Century Fate of the Craft Ideal
Home/work: Images in Context
On Frank Lloyd Wright
Museums of Modern Art: Framing the Future
The English Arts and Crafts Movement and the Cotswolds
John Ronan Connects with Brice Marden
Hadrian: Modern Visionary in Ancient Times
The Vinteuil Sonata: Where Music and Literature Collide
Silvia Malagrino Connects with Francisco Goya
Apart at the Seams: Looking at Victorian Photocollage
Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy
Richard Powell on Kerry James Marshall
Briony Fer on Eva Hesse
Caroll Dunham on Jim Nutt
Theodora Vischer on Robert Gober
Molecular to Monumental: Rediscovering Lost Cultures from the Inside Out
Judith Brotman Connects with Eva Hesse
Cézanne and Pissarro in the 1870s
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Objects of Attention: Cy Twombly's Sculpture
Gifts of Wishful Thinking: Genji Screens and the Bridal Trousseau in Tokugawa Japan
Japanese Screen Paintings and the Strategy of Emperors
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Residence
Wine of the Pharoahs
The Mountain Lake Screen Tachi
Still Life—Some Thoughts on the Late Work of Cy Twombly and the Artist's Studio
Technical Study of Saint John in the Wilderness
Art from Ancient Bactria and Gandhara: The Legacy of Alexander the Great in the East
John Arndt Connects with Robert Adams
The Other Side of Conquest—Prisoners and Victims in the Roman Triumph
Urbs et Orbs—The City and the World in the Roman Triumph
Reading: Elizabeth Alexander
A Personal View of Karsh's Life and Work
Yousuf Karsh: The Last of His Kind
From Harlem to the Character Project: Representing the Human Subject
In the Light of Other Days: The Cold War Portraiture of Richard Avedon and Irving Penn
Michael Dinges Connects with Joseph Cornell
Bauhaus to Green Haus—From Pyramids to Spacecraft
Global Collections for Global Cities
Scanning and Planning: Modern Modes of Watching the Ancient World
Curatorial Perspectives
Lou Mallozzi Connects with van der Spelt and van Mieris
The Mysteries of Munch's Working Methods
Sibling Rivalries and Global Monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Reading: Tomaz Salamun
Edra Soto Connects with William Blake
Science Chicago—A Technical Study of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
O'Neill in Brazil
Spiral Jetta by Erin Hogan
Engineering Solutions and Construction Challenges of the Modern Wing
Dan Devening Connects with Matisse
Going Green: Environmental Features of the Modern Wing
Challenging the Encyclopedic Museum—Berlin's Museum Island
Reading: Paul Muldoon
Salon Caricature and Comic Criticism in 19th-Century Paris
Encyclopedic Museums—Cabinets of Curiosity
A World Connected—Why Do We Leave Home?
God's Crucible—Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
Martina Nehrling Connects with Vuillard
The Divine Art Exhibition Viewing and Overview
Expected Recoveries in an Unexpected Place: Some Tapestries at the Abbazio di San Girolamo Della Cervara
Plot Lines: Spoken and Woven
Rethinking a Masterpiece: The Resurrection from the Allegory of the Redemption of Man
Tapestry Production at Gobelins in the 18th Century
The Economics of Tapestry Making
Genius of Sport—Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the Enduring Values of the Olympic Ideal
The History and Fine Art of American Indian Basketry
Between Nature and Artifice in Early Drawings by Francesco Salviati
Behind and Beyond the Self-Portrait: Andrea Mantegna between Reality and Fantasy
Spinning Nature into Fantasy: Jacopo Ligozzi's Holy Family in the Goldman Collection
Drawing into Painting: Creating the "Fantasia" in the Cappella di Eleonora di Toledo
Fantasy and Reality in the Early Life of Taddeo Drawings by Federico Zuccaro
Transforming the Model: Between Nature and Fantasy in Gianlorenzo Bernini's Academic Nudes
Religion, Ethics, and Globalization—New Dilemmas Local and Global
Rhonda Wheatley Connects with Cy Twombly
An Egyptian Mummy Case Rediscovered
Reading: Adam Zagajewski
A Group of Female Heads by Pietro da Cortona Studied from Nature and Transformed into Fantasia for the Frescoes in the Palazzo Pitti
The Treatment of Toulouse-Lautrec's Ballet Dancers
Reading and Commentary: Art and Literature
Chicago and Globalization—Caught in the Middle
Season Preview—The Promise of Encyclopedic Museums
Edo Art and the Reconstruction of Memory
On Benin Art of the Courts
Courtyard Intrigues—Jostling for Chiefly Power in the Art and Life of the Benin Kingdom
Making Her Mark—Sari Dienes and the Artist's Trace in the 1950s New York
Musecast: August 2008
Painting Forensics: Investigating Northern Renaissance Art
The History and Transformation of a Benin Exhibition
Benin--Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria
Making 'A Case for Wine' at the Art Institute
Murals and Sculpture of India
Artists Connect: Paola Cabal Connects with Vija Celmins
Le Corbusier in Chicago
Women and Architecture
The Checkered History of the Farnsworth House
Winslow Homer and the Composite Image
Great Houses of Chicago
Artists Connect: Pate Conaway Connects with René Magritte
The Other Hollywood--Modern Architecture and the Los Angeles Film Community
Winslow Homer, Artist and Angler
Ed Ruscha and Photography
Sufis, Shi'ites, and Shahs: The Great Shrines of Iran, 1500-1650
Space, Place, and Spectatorship in Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles
Screen Memories in the Art of Ed Ruscha
Closing Conversation with Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha
Transcending Reality: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
Connecting Art to the Park: The Nichols Bridgeway
Winslow Homer and the Color Theories of M.E. Chevereul
Transforming Reality: The Artistic Vision of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper
Little-Known Construction Facts
Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison
Laura Kina Connects with Gauguin
Reading: Four Notable Latino Poets
Reading: Kwame Dawes
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Lost at Sea: Jasper Johns and Hart Crane
Edward Hopper
Exploring the Opera Doctor Atomic, Part 3
Fresh Air and Pure Impressions: Winslow Homer's Watercolors
Artists Connect: David Schutter Connects with Jean Antoine Watteau
Avoid a Polar Situation: Johns, Cage, and O'Hara in the Sixties
Jasper Johns--In the Gray Zone between What Can and Cannot Be Measured
Artists Connect: Theaster Gates Connects with Japanese Ceramics
Wallace Stevens: The Poet as Painter
Is There an Art to Art Collecting?
Artists Connect: Deb Sokolow Connects with Guillermo Kuitca
Mel Bochner Symposium, Introduction and Keynote
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel I: Language (Chrissie Iles)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel I: Language (Eric de Bruyn)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel I: Language (Jeffrey Thompson)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel I: Language (Moderated Discussion)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel II: Translation (Carroll Dunham)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel II: Translation (Christophe Cherix)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel II: Translation (Johanna Burton)
Mel Bochner Symposium, Panel II: Translation (Moderated Discussion)
Richard Misrach
Dawoud Bey
The Gates of Paradise: Art and Innovation
Kota Ezawa
Sarah Hobbs
Sixty Years of Art in Pakistan
Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work
Ian Wallace Lecture on Jeff Wall
Jan Tumlir Lectures on Jeff Wall
Jana Gunstheimer
Angela Strassheim
Byzantium and Points East
Artists Connect: Adelheid Mers Connects with Carl Blechen
Artists Connect: Sumakshi Singh Connects with Richard Tuttle
Artists Connect: Bibiana Suarez Connects with Rosalba Carriera
Mel Bochner, with James Meyer
Artist's Talk by Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
Sally Mann at the Art Institute of Chicago
Tina Barney & Larry Sultan in conversation
El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin
Second Thoughts on The Da Vinci Code
Harry Callahan Exhibition
Sheeler & the Machine Age
Breaking Away: How Rembrandt Became an Original Artist
Curator's Talk: Drawings in Dialogue
Feathered Serpents and Scarlet Macaws: Imagery of Casas Grandes Ceramics