Lectures and Conversations

Lectures & Conversations Spring and Summer 2011

Explore works of art from around the world and throughout time with distinguished artists, scholars, and artistic leaders. Join us for this season of thought-provoking conversations.

For up-to-date information on these programs and other exciting events, visit us online at DallasMuseumofArt.org.

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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 Series This series brings notable scholars of 19th- and 20th-century European art to present new research and fresh interpretations of the Dallas Museum of Art’s modern masterworks. 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 This season the Museum’s major special exhibitions will feature treasures of American art—from masterworks designed by Gustav Stickley, to iconic architectural designs by Frank Lloyd Wright and exquisite examples of American Indian art. See page 13 in this brochure for more information about these and other special exhibitions on view.

Late Night Lectures Join us on the third Friday of each month, when the Museum is open until midnight. Each Late Night offers a variety of experiences, including talks by artists, scholars, curators, and special guests.

State of the Arts KERA host and senior producer Jeff Whittington moderates dynamic discussions with Dallas’s key artistic leaders—including visual artists, musicians, dancers, and filmmakers—to explore the creative process and the city’s cultural landscape.

Other Lecture Programs The Museum presents a number of special lectures and stimulating conversations exploring the role of art, from antiquity to contemporary times, and its relationship to history, culture, and identity. Hear new and interesting perspectives from artists, art historians, curators, and other guest speakers.

Arts & Letters Live A celebration of the literary and performing arts featuring acclaimed authors, actors, illustrators, musicians, and more. Visit DallasMuseumofArt/ALL for a complete schedule of Arts & Letters Live programs.

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Perspectives

Michael Corris Wednesday, February 16, 12:15 p.m.

Dallas Museum of Art curators Jeffrey Grove and Charles Wylie join leading artists, writers, and art historians to discuss the language, ideas, and processes that inform contemporary art.

These conversations will take place in the galleries to foster further reconsiderations of the Museum’s contemporary collection, which forms one of the cornerstones of the Dallas Museum of Art. Michael Corris is Chair of the Division of Art at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and an artist, art historian, and writer on art. He was a member of the pioneering conceptual art group Art and Language and has written extensively on contemporary art and art theory.

Brettell Lecture

The Many Faces of Renoir’s Lise Tréhot Friday, February 18, 9:00 p.m.

Lise Tréhot was Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s companion between 1866 and 1872 and one of his favorite models during that time. Distinguished art historian John House, of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, will explore Renoir’s paintings of Lise, including two important works in the DMA’s Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, and the varied guises in which he represented her, ranging from lowerclass parisienne to Oriental odalisque.

This lecture is part of Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art. Enjoy a romantic evening as you explore our newly installed European galleries, concerts, tours, films, and more.

State of the Arts Presented in partnership with KERA’s Art & Seek

Michael Cain and George Fenton

Wednesday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.

Join Jeff Whittington for a thoughtprovoking conversation with

Michael Cain President, M3 Films Chairman of the Board, DALLAS Film Society George Fenton Grammy, Oscar, and Emmy Award–winning composer Masters of Film Music guest conductor, Dallas Symphony Orchestra

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Perspectives

Frances Colpitt Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.

Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins Frances Colpitt for a conversation about issues in contemporary art. Dr. Colpitt is the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University (TCU) and a specialist in contemporary art, theory, and criticism. She is a corresponding editor for Art in America and has curated numerous exhibitions at venues throughout the country.

Exhibition Lecture

Utopian Dreams: The American Arts and Crafts Movement Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.

When the term “Arts and Crafts” was invented in the late 19th century, it implied very different things than it does today; for some it signified a philosophy and a way of life, while for others it was a style. Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University, will explore American artists’ varied responses to the challenges and tensions of an urban, industrial society and the demands of art at the turn of the century—from the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, to the ceramics made at the Rookwood and Grueby potteries, to the lamps and Favrile glass vases from Tiffany Studios.

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Perspectives

Christian Schumann Wednesday, March 16, 12:15 p.m.

Jeffrey Grove, The Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins artist Christian Schumann for a conversation about his work, which incorporates text, biomorphic shapes, and diagrams to create canvases that “rumble with the energy and look of urban life.” A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Schumann is an internationally exhibited artist whose work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, in addition to the DMA and others.

“I attempt to transcribe a subconscious eye, at once political and psychological in its subject matter.” —Christian Schumann

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Marianne Stockebrand Thursday, March 17, 7:30 p.m.

Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA, joins Marianne Stockebrand, Director Emerita of the Chinati Foundation, for a discussion about the legendary sculptor Donald Judd and his ideas of the role of art and museums in contemporary culture.

After the discussion, Dr. Stockebrand will be available to sign copies of her book Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd. This new volume, co-published by the Chinati Foundation and Yale University Press, provides the first comprehensive overview of Donald Judd’s unique installations and buildings in Marfa, Texas.

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Arts & Letters Live: Artful Musings

Gail Levin and Meryle Secrest: Artistic Lives Friday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.

Art historian Gail Levin’s newest biography, Lee Krasner (March 2011), offers a fresh look at the artist, best known as Jackson Pollock’s wife, who was a modernist master in her own right. Meryle Secrest is an acclaimed biographer whose newest book, Modigliani: A Life (March 2011), uncovers the seemingly shy, delicate man behind the romantic myth.

Before the event, join Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, to explore works by Krasner and Modigliani in the Museum’s collections. ticket prices: Full $30

Reduced $25

Student $10

Special Event: Concentrations Artists Talk

Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, joins artists Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors for a discussion of their work, which will be on display in solo installations as part of the Museum’s Concentrations series. Concentrations focuses on the work of emerging artists, and this installment marks the inauguration of the series’ thirtieth year. Feehily, based in Berlin, creates paintings that explore a long-term preoccupation with blurring boundaries, often between non-representation and image, text and drawing. Connors lives and works in New York, and he makes small-scale abstract paintings that reference poetry, music, and film as well as modern painting styles.

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Special Event

Stickley Saturday Saturday, April 2, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Half-price admission ($5) and parking ($5) In conjunction with the Museum’s landmark exhibition of the work of Gustav Stickley, join us for a special celebration of the era of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

Enjoy tours, talks, workshops, and musical performances. From furnishings to architecture and interior design, Stickley and his peers created works that prized craftsmanship and celebrated nature.

Visit DallasMuseumofArt.org for a complete schedule of events.

Late Night Lecture

Romancing the Bungalow: Getting to Know Your Arts and Crafts Home Friday, April 15, 9:00 p.m.

Kevin W. Tucker, the DMA’s Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, will present an entertaining perspective on the history of the bungalow and its romantic appeal as the ideal suburban American home in the early 20th century.

To inspire the preservation and restoration of your own bungalow, investigate classic motifs, color schemes, hardware details, and “Mission”-style furnishings.

This lecture will explore historic Dallas neighborhoods, including Oak Cliff and Munger Place, and their significant Arts and Crafts houses.

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Boshell Lecture

Surveying the Silk Road: East/West Contacts Along the Route in Ancient Times Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.

Join distinguished scholar and author Elizabeth Wayland Barber to explore the Silk Road, the collection of trade routes where luxurious goods, technologies, and ideas were exchanged between East and West. For almost three thousand years, the Silk Road created important paths for traders, merchants, and pilgrims between China and India, the Persian Empire, and Mediterranean countries.

After the lecture, visit the Level 3 galleries to see a new installation of objects from the Silk Road in the DMA’s collections.

Special Event

A Dream of Identity: Coco Chanel and the Myths of Fashion Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

Rhonda Garelick, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska and a well-known scholar and writer on performance, literature, fashion, and cultural politics, will explore Coco Chanel’s influence on fashion as well as in literary and artistic circles in Paris. Chanel’s Mediterranean villa, La Pausa, also hosted many cultural luminaries, including Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. Five rooms of the Villa La Pausa were re-created at the Dallas Museum of Art to house the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern European art.

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Arts & Letters Live: Artful Musings

Simon Schama

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Monday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.

Simon Schama, an award-winning author, broadcaster, critic, and academic is renowned for his intellectually rich and entertaining studies of the influences that have shaped the human condition. Schama’s books include The American Future; Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution; The Power of Art; Landscape and Memory; Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly); and the History of Britain trilogy. At this event, he will discuss his forthcoming essay collection, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Running Around in History, Politics, Art, and Culture (April 2011). ticket prices: Full $37

Reduced $32

Student $15

Exhibition Lecture

The Search for the Primitive: Native American Art and the American Arts and Crafts Movement Thursday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.

Dissatisfied with modern industrialized society, many Arts and Crafts practitioners looked to indigenous American cultures in the search for authentic cultural expression in the early 20th century. Monica Obniski, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, will explore the influence of Native American Art, particularly baskets and textiles, on designers, artists, and architects, such as Gustav Stickley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frank Lloyd Wright, within the Arts and Crafts movement in America.

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Special Event

2011 Awards to Artists Artist Talks and Reception Thursday, May 12, 6:30 p.m.

The recipients of the 2011 DeGolyer, Kimbrough, and Dozier awards will discuss their winning work. These annual awards recognize exceptional talent and potential in emerging visual artists who show a commitment to continuing their artistic endeavors. Since their establishment in 1980 and 1990, Awards to Artists grants have been given to more than 230 recipients, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in North Texas and across the country. The three funds have given more than $500,000 since their founding.

Late Night Lecture

The History of Beads Friday, May 20, 9:00 p.m.

Known as “the doyenne of the bead world,� author and curator Lois Sherr Dubin will investigate how beads have been used throughout history and around the world as talismans, status symbols, religious articles, and a medium of barter. For Dubin, each bead is a capsule of cultural information, containing a fascinating tale of the origins of its materials, its multifold uses, its travels, and its potent symbolism.

In addition to the lecture, enjoy an entire evening of music, dance performances, tours, and family activities that celebrate the exhibition Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection.

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Arts & Letters Live Special Event

S. C. Gwynne Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m.

In 1836 a nine-year-old pioneer girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas.

Parker later became a full member of the Comanches and married a highly respected chief. Her son, Quanah, would become the last and greatest Comanche leader.

Their story is told in Empire of the Summer Moon, which traces the rise and fall of the Comanche Nation. Author Sam Gwynne will discuss this fascinating story in conversation with Jake Silverstein, editor of Texas Monthly.

Before the event, enjoy a docent-led tour of the exhibition Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. ticket prices: Full $37

Reduced $32

Student $15

Boshell Lecture

Charles C. Mann Friday, July 15, 9:00 p.m.

Drawing from archaeological, anthropological, scientific, and literary evidence, author Charles C. Mann will reveal new visions of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. His best-selling book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, was awarded the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Keck Award for the best book of the year.

A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, Mann has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Wired, the New York Times, and Smithsonian magazine, among many others, covering the intersection of science, technology, and commerce.

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2011–2012 Exhibitions Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement February 13–May 8, 2011 Organized by the DMA, this exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of Gustav Stickley. The exhibition presents more than one hundred objects produced by Stickley’s designers and workshops, including iconic furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles.

Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors April 3–August 14, 2011 This pairing of solo projects by Berlin-based Feehily and New York artist Connors brings together paintings that challenge traditions of abstraction and push limitations of the painterly surface. This will be the inaugural installment in the thirtieth year of the Concentrations series.

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection April 24–September 4, 2011 The DMA’s first Native American exhibition in nearly twenty years, Art of the American Indians features over one hundred works from the renowned Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York. The works of art date from well before first European contact to the present and celebrate the continuing vitality of American Indian art.

Re-Seeing the Contemporary Through March 20, 2011 This exhibition presents more than sixty paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the DMA’s rich collection of modern and contemporary art.

Explore rarely seen works alongside more familiar icons to trace the history of contemporary art from the 1940s to today.

Encountering Space Through 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.

Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio Through July 17, 2011 This exhibition features sixteen prints drawn from a rare example of the Wasmuth Portfolio, widely recognized as one of the most important architectural publications of the 20th century. A collaboration between Frank Lloyd Wright and a German printer, the portfolio served as the first and most important publication of Wright’s innovative Prairie school creations.

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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.

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 KERA’s Art & Seek.

Additional support is provided by Energy Future Holdings.

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 (detail): A princess with her attendents, India, Late Mughal, possibly Farrukhabad, c. 1960–75, opaque watercolor on paper, Intended gift of David T. Owsley, 7.2007.29 inside: Jasper Johns, Device, 1961–62, oil on canvas with wood and metal attachments, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of The Art Museum League, Margaret J. and George V. Charlton, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Francis, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Greenlee, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James H. W. Jacks, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin L. Levy, Mrs. John W. O’Boyle, and Dr. Joanne Stroud in honor of Mrs. Eugene McDermott, 1976.1, © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lise Sewing (detail), 1866, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, 1985.R.59; Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 29, 1970, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.106, © Estate of Richard Diebenkorn; Table scarf, Ginkgo design, No. 915, Gustav Stickley, attributed to Louise Shrimpton, designer, designed c. 1904, linen, Crab Tree Farm; Christian Schumann, Nomads, 1998–99, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Artists Fund, 2001.11, © 1999 Christian Schumann; Donald Judd, Untitled, 1988, aluminum and yellow Plexiglas, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum League Purchase Fund, General Acquisitions Fund, H. Harold Wineburgh Fund and gift of an anonymous donor, 1990.137.a–f, © Donald Judd Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Matt Conners, Soul Error (Vertical), 2010, oil and colored pencil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund, 2010.30, © Matt Conners; Side Chair, Gustav Stickley, designed c. 1903–04, oak, pewter, copper, various woods, and rush (replaced), The Estate of Dr. Edgar G. McKee; Craftsman House No. 10 Elevations (detail), Gustav Stickley, October 1905, cyanotype on paper, The Stickley Museum of Craftsman Farms; Buddhist jeweled plaque (detail), Nepal, 18th–19th century, turquoise, copper, coral, and jewels, Intended gift of David T. Owsley, 7.2007.36; Coco Chanel (in front of window) in the dining room at La Pausa, 1938; Electric Lantern No. 777, Gustav Stickley, c. 1908, copper and glass, Crab Tree Farm; Bandolier Bag (detail), ca. 1830, Seminole Type, Florida, trade cloth, yarn, glass beads, and cotton backing, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0005, Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor; Monroe Tsatoke, Comanche Chief, c. 1934, watercolor, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Public Works of Art Project, 1934.11; Blanket (detail), ca. 1890, Osage (Wah-Zah-Zhe), Oklahoma, wool, silk ribbon, beads, and thread, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0809, Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor; Linen chest (detail), Gustav Stickley, attributed to John Seidemann, maker, United Crafts or Craftsman Workshops, manufacturer, Eastwood, New York, 1903, oak and iron, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., facilitated by American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, 2008.22.McD; Matt Conners, Soul Error (Vertical) (detail), 2010, oil and colored pencil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund, 2010.30, © Matt Conners; Horse Mask (detail), ca. 1875–1900, Nez Perce (Nimi’ipuu) or Cayuse, Idaho, Oregon, or Eastern Washington, trade cloth, blue cloth, cotton lining and thread, glass beads, brass buttons, horsehair, mirror, feathers, silk ribbons, hide, and ermine, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0177, Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor; Larry Bell, The Cube of the Iceberg II, 1975, float glass coated with Inconel, Dallas Museum of Art, anonymous gift in memory of J. O. Lambert, Jr., 1981.44, © Larry Bell; Robert Delaunay, Eiffel Tower (detail), 1924, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.105, © L&M Services, Amsterdam; Frank Lloyd Wright, Villa für Herrn W. H. Winslow in River Forest, Illinois, Eingangs detail (detail), Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Robert O. Lane Estate in memory of Roy E. Lane, A.I.A., 200.372.1.a

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