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Explore Art History in Good Company with Dr. Karen Pope
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historian Karen Pope for study tours, day trips and informal luncheons
to expand your horizons or fill gaps in your world of art. No
background or experience is necessary--just curiosity!
Upcoming events, near and far, offer art history experiences in the good
company of companions with similar interests.
- CONTACT Add your name to our email list or begin a registration for an Art inSight event at Contact Art inSight.
- REVIEW For a history of study tours and programs conducted by Art inSight, see About Art inSight.
- READ For a one-page printable description of 2012 events, click and open the .pdf at left.
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2012 Art inSight schedule (1 page) |
Art inSight's SCHEDULE for 2012
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2012 Lecture Series:
The
World′s Great Buildings--Milestones in Architecture
Focus
on some of the greatest buildings in history and reasons for their status.
Beautiful images, art history, food, and good
company, in the Terrace Room (capacity: 80) at Westwood Country Club in west Austin.
Each program begins with coffee (10:30), followed by an
informal illustrated lecture (11:00), and a seated luncheon at about
noon.
The cost for each event is $30 per person. Preregistration is expected; the deadline for registration is the preceding Friday.
(Westwood Country Club offers us plenty of space; the deadline is for benefit of the kitchen!)
Registration: Your check is your reservation. Make checks out to Karen Pope Art inSight and mail to:
PO Box 5730
Austin TX 78763-5730
Background reference suggestion:
Carol Strickland, The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture (9780740710247)
Schedule of dates and topics:
1. ANCIENT
WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, January 20 . . . . . Stonehenge, 2750 BC; and the Parthenon, 477
BC
2. ANCIENT WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, February 17 . . . . Pantheon, 125 AD; and St. Peters, 325
3. GOTHIC
& RENAISSANCE . . . . . . Friday, March 23 . . . . . . Chartres, 1194; Pazzi Chapel, 1429; Villa
Rotunda, 1566
4. BAROQUE
& WEST . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, April 27* . . . . . . . San Carlo all Quattro Fontane, 1638;
Drayton Hall, 1738
5. REVIEW
SESSION . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, July 20
6. NEW
SYSTEMS: STEEL . . . . . . . . Friday, August 17. . . . . . Crystal Palace, 1851; Eiffel Tower, 1889;
Carson Pirie Scott, 1900
7. MODERN: THE HOUSE . . . . . . . . Friday, September 21 . . Robie House, 1909; Villa Savoye, 1928;
Farnsworth Hse, 1946
8. MODERN: TALL BUILDINGS . . . . Friday, October 26* . . . . Seagram Bldg, 1954; AT&T Bldg, 1984
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SCULPTURESQUE . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, November 16 . . Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, 1955; Disney
Hall, 1999
*changed from original schedule sent in January
Past series:
2011 Women in Art/Art of Women
2010 Art of Nations: Survey of Art History, One Country at a Time
2009 Angels, Saints and Their Friends in Art History
2008 Time Capsules: A Survey of Seven Centuries
2007 Un-Birthday Parties (for great artists with inconvenient birthdates)
1995-2006 Birthday Parties for great artists, on their true birthdays
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2012 Luncheon Series PowerPoints--by request
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Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
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| Richard William Hubbard (1816-1888), Mount Holyoke Looking Toward the Connecticut River, 1877 . |
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GRACE
MUSEUM ♦ www.thegracemuseum.org
AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org
Go West! Representations of the American Frontier (January 14 - September 23, 2012)
The exhibition features paintings, sculptures and works on paper made
in, and about, the American West by Henry Farny, Charles Russell,
Maynard Dixon, and other artists from The Blanton’s celebrated C.R.
Smith Collection of Art of the American West, in the largest
installation of this collection in over a decade. Go West! is organized thematically and chronologically, with
investigations of the country’s westward expansion in the nineteenth
century, including: contested territories and the ensuing battles of the
U.S. Army cavalry, representations of Native Americans, cowboys and
ranchers, ideas of Manifest Destiny, the industrialization and
urbanization of the land, and the ever-changing American landscape as
witnessed and portrayed by artists living and working in the Western
United States.
American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting (January 22 - April 29, 2012)
116 paintings by 71 artists who took New York’s Hudson River Valley as
their primary subject, pioneering the country’s first native artistic
style; the first exhibition to explore the Hudson River School′s practice of
creating pairs, series, and groupings of thematically related works that
were intended to be seen together.
excellent 7:22-minute overview created for Reading Public Museum, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr_LwGJm8-4
exhibition checklist online: http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/americanscenery/checklist_2.htm
AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.amoa.org
ARTHOUSE (Austin Contemporary Art Museum) ♦ www.arthousetexas.org
HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER at UT-AUSTIN ♦ http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM ♦ www.nchmuseum.org
"Modern
Times: Austin in the Decade of the 1880s"
Since 2006 the
Neill-Cochran House Museum has been going back in time to discover the
nooks and crannies of history. Always informative, the resulting
conversations are also moving or funny. Joins us for the 1890s!
Modern Times: The 1890s
A Series of Conversations About 19th-Century Life
Hosted by the Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum
Season 6 | 2011—2012
Limited Seating
$10 General Admission / Free to Friends Members
Reservations: 512.478.2335 or info@nchmuseum.orgRefreshments at 2:00 PM, Program at 2:30 PM, Free Parking for attendees behind NCHMSunday, October 16, 2011
The Bicycle Boom: Untrammeled Freedom
DAVID HERLIHY
Sunday, November 13, 2010
Achtung, Baby! Under the Gaiety Are Signs of War
ANDREW VILLALON
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Beneath the Yellow Wallpaper: Writers, Workers & Freud Discover the Self
PAMELA CHRISTIAN|EV LUNNING
The 1890s saw a
shift in the way we see ourselves. Freud published Studies on Hysteria
and The Interpretation of Dreams; Charlotte Perkins Gillman wrote The
Yellow Wallpaper and Women and Economics; Coxey’s Army marched on the
capital; strikes abounded; Plessy v. Ferguson went to the Supreme Court.
Equity actors Pamela Christian and Ev Lunning, Jr., explore the fin-de-siècle
in a staged duet reading. Dr. Christian, Associate Professor in U.T.’s
Department of Theatre and Dance, who was voted Austin’s best actress for
her role as Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart, returns to Modern Times with
Mr. Lunning, veteran film actor, voiceover per-former, and artistic
director of the acclaimed Mary Moody Northen Theatre at St. Edwards
University. Explore with them the newly minted introspection that set
the stage for the 20th century.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Promises, Promises: The Very White City of the World’s Columbian Exposition
KAREN POPE
Expositions
mark progress and presage the future, and the 1893 Chicago World’s
Columbian Exposition was no exception. It included America’s foremost
architects; Texas artist Elisabet Ney was invited to take part as well.
Not all promises were fulfilled: African-American participation was
denied; women were relegated to their own board — foreseeing future
struggles of both minorities. Unlike the 1890 Texas Expo, the Chicago
fair had a dark side, including murder, epidemic, assassination, and
fire. Baylor Art History Professor Karen Pope will open the century in
Fort Worth and head north
to tour the “White City.”
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Measuring Up: Fannie Farmer & Our Food
M M PACK
with a commemorative Pie-&-Ice Cream Social
M M Pack always
adds spice to Modern Times, but this season, she’s adding ice cream and
pie – the real thing! The ice cream social and talk commemorate Fannie
Farmer’s Boston Cooking- School Cook Book, published in 1896, to help
home cooks expect successful results each time when preparing a dish.
Miss Farmer, who became principal of the Boston Cooking School, prefaced
her book by saying, “It is my wish that it may not only be looked upon
as a compilation of tried and tested recipes, but that it may awaken an
interest through its condensed scientific knowledge which will lead to
deeper thought and broader study of what to eat.” Ms. Pack is an
accomplished writer, scholar of food ways, and private chef who divides
her time between Austin and San Francisco. A graduate of Rice
University, she’s a contributor to The Austin Chronicle and Edible
Austin and a member of the International Association of Culinary
Professionals. Her recipes for the 1890s-style goodies will be as close
as possible to the originals.
UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The first wide-ranging examination of American fine art from the end of World War I through the start of the Great Depression, this nationally touring exhibition, featuring more than 130 works of painting, sculpture, and photography by more than sixty-five artists, will demonstrate how American artists of the period embraced a progressive, idealized realism visible in a resurgence of figuration and in highly distilled images of American places and things."
Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Local Collections (March 4 - July 1, 2012)
"To complement the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, the DMA presents Texas in the Twenties, an exhibition featuring images of Texas during the 1920s made by Texas artists. Gathering drawings, etchings, prints, and photographs loaned by local collections, the exhibition highlights scenes of Texas as well as the transitional time in Dallas history when it was on the verge of becoming one of our nation’s largest and most vibrant cities. Showcasing approximately thirty works by L. O. Griffith, Mary Anita Bonner, and Eugene Omar Goldbeck."
FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AMON CARTER MUSEUM ♦ www.cartermuseum.orgRomance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell (Feb. 11 - May 13, 2012)
"Russell
created approximately 3,000 works of art in his lifetime—paintings,
watercolors, drawings and sculpture. He turned out roughly 1,100
watercolors; thus, fully one-third of Russell’s artistic output was in
the watercolor medium. His watercolors, as well as his mastery of the
medium, have never been examined in depth. In Romance Maker, his works are studied in the larger context of watercolor in America from the Civil War to the late 1920's."
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org Michelangelo's First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony (ongoing)
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark (March 11 - June 17, 2012)73 paintings from the renowned
collection
of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, will include 22 Renoirs and
6 Monets, along with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin,
Toulouse-Lautrec, and Bonnard.
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.org
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.mfah.org
The Best of the MFAH: An Online Exhibition Currently on view: Curators′ Recommendations: MFAH Artworks You Absolutely,
Positively, Must See
[on mfa website, pull down tab called "Art at the MFAH"]
English Taste: The Art of DIning in the Eighteenth Century (through January 29, 2012)
Replicating the art of the meal in 18th-century England: a feast for the eyes, complete with lavish Rococo table fittings, this dining-room extravaganza features objects from Rienzi and private collections as well as elaborate reproductions of the game and fowl that were typical of these meals.
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (through Feb. 12, 2012)
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski (February 12 - May 6, 2012)
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
English Taste: The Art of Dining in the 18th Century (through January 29, 2012)
MENIL COLLECTION ♦ www.menil.org
Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine & Russian Icons from The Menil Collection (through March 18, 2012) "The Menil's collection of Byzantine icons is widely regarded by scholars in the field as one of the most important of its kind in the United States. The group of more than sixty works, many of which were acquired by Dominique de Menil in 1985 from the noted collector Eric Bradley, spans six-hundred years, from the 13th to the 18th centuries, and encompasses a number of distinct cultures including Greek, Slavic, and Russian."
Richard Serra Drawings: A Retrospective (March 2 - June 10, 2012)
The first-ever retrospective of the artist’s drawings, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, will be the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center.
Silence (July 27 - October 21, 2012) "Whether a positive source of inspiration, an enigmatic force, or an unsettling limbo zone, silence is a powerful force in art and human experience. Silence considers the absence of sound as a subject and a medium in contemporary art, in paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, performances, and sound works." SAN ANGELO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SAN ANGELO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.samfa.org
SAN ANTONIO . . . . . . .
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McNAY ART MUSEUM ♦ www.mcnayart.org
Rouault’s Miserere: Printed Prayers (May 16 - July 29, 2012) “Miserere mei, Deus” (God, have mercy on me), the opening line of Psalm 51, inspired Georges Rouault’s title for these images that present the artist’s reaction to the realities of modern life after World War I. Rouault’s 58 prints combine photogravure, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette in one of the most famous print suites of the early 20th century." This suite was a gift to the McNay from Gilbert Denman, a long-time major benefactor of the museum.
Opening the Witte Wardrobe: 85 Years of Collecting Textiles (through March 25, 2012) Celebrating the museum's 85th year, a selection of clothing and accessories spanning more than 150 years of fashion. The Witte Museum began collecting historic clothing in 1926. Curator Cecilia Steinfeldt brought chronological order to the collection, which became a resource for a variety of organizations, from university costume history classes to needlework guilds. In 1995, Michaele Haynes, Ph.D. brought a new perspective, adding emphasis to the everyday artifacts and their social context. Today, the Witte Museum collection tells the story of life in South Texas.
Old San Antonio in the backyard
The
Witte's backyard has historic houses from all over San Antonio. Walk
around the homes to see what materials were used to build each one.
Then try to build your own log cabin in the hands-on “little log
cabin.” Only the log cabins are open to visitors; the other houses are used for staff offices and museum programs.
- The Ruiz House was the home of the city’s first schoolmaster
- The Twohig House was built in 1841 by Irishman John Twohig
- The Navarro House was built in 1835 by Jose Antonio Navarro
- The Log Cabin was constructed in 1939 by 30 youths participating in
President Roosevelt’s National Youth Administration program. The “dog
trot” style cabin represents the type of cabin built by many Texas pioneers.
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| William Merritt Chase, The Japanese Woodblock Print, c. 1888. 20 x 24" Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemaeldesammlungen, Munich |
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