Past Events Category: Public Lecture

Professor Nina Rowe
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L150
March 7, 2024 @ 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
https://go.wisc.edu/hu1a6l

2024 Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series “Moses through an Urban Lens: Jewish Neighbors, African Visitors, and the Life of a Biblical Patriarch in Late Medieval Regensburg” Nina Rowe, Professor of Art History, Fordham …

Andrew Casto
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L160
March 6, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
https://go.wisc.edu/uw-art-talks

Andrew Casto’s ceramics are an investigation into dialogues concerning negative forces in our lives, and the degree to which the phenomenological ramifications of responsibilities and stress shape us physically, mentally, and emotionally. These works can …

Sophie Pitman
Nancy Nicholas Hall | 1300 Linden Dr. Madison, WI
March 5, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/curator-gallery-talk-with-dr-sophie-pitman-tickets-791594679997?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR1NPU0_TKiXshg9zXBQ8dDB4RSo8sAlb7BDIj3cik-rXUvT8glykGLQvWc

Dr. Sophie Pitman (Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director) will take you on a tour of Remaking the Renaissance for a close look at Renaissance textiles and learn about how researchers are remaking and restoring …

Zach Kaiser and Gabi Schaffzin
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | 211 State St. Madison, WI
March 2, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://www.mmoca.org/events/ai-talk/?fbclid=IwAR0nVIxgJv-1Xs2kFxH7SHr_FCrpeJ3ZcQWbzdhmPhMSgpqZeotW59HJkRg

Blessed is the Machine is a self-aware computational system, alive with data yet critical of the very activities in which it is engaged. The project features an “AI avatar” which makes inferences about visitors’ emotions and …

Nadine M. Orenstein
Milwaukee Art Museum | 700 N. Art Museum Dr. Milwaukee, WI
February 29, 2024 @ 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
https://mam.org/events/event/lecture-rare-and-everywhere/

Rare and Everywhere: Prints by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries in 17th-Century Holland Learn about the robust print culture of the North Netherlands in the 1600s with Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the …

Jamie Jones
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L150
February 29, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
https://cvc.wisc.edu/programs/jamie-jones/

Extractive Nostalgia: Obsolescence and Skeuomorphism in Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was a flop when it was first published in 1851, but it finally became a hit in 1930, when Lakeside Press issued a new bestselling new …

Arts + Literature Laboratory | 111 S. Livingston St. #100, Madison, WI
February 28, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
https://artlitlab.org/events/body-language-a-collection-of-mfa-video-works

Mills Folly Microcinema presents Body Language: A Collection of MFA Video Works on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Admission $5.00, free for ALL members. A $1 fee will be added for single admission credit card charges, …

Alex Jackson
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L160
February 28, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
https://go.wisc.edu/uw-art-talks

Alex Jackson plays with the foundation of human perception by challenging viewers to suspend their historical understanding of painting and actively participate in new explorations of color and meaning. Jackson’s practice includes the use of …

Online
February 27, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
https://www.daheshmuseum.org/reinstalling-nineteenth-century-american-art-in-us-museums-part-2-innovationinterpretation/

Please join the AHNCA on Tuesday, February 27 at 7PM ET for the Virtual Salon Reinstalling Nineteenth-Century American Art in US Museums, part 2: Innovation/Interpretation. This event is organized by Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and is …

Martha Glowacki
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | 211 State St. Madison, WI
February 24, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://www.mmoca.org/events/starrytransit/

Originally installed at the historic Washburn Observatory as part of a collaborative project between MMoCA and the UW–Madison Department of Astronomy in 2005, Starry Transit draws on historical scientific objects and manuscripts to explore the …