A Closer Look: Dutch National Identity in17th-Century PaintingsExplore the shaping of the 17th-century Dutch Republic and the emergence of a national consciousness through the lens of key paintings in the Legion of Honor’s collection. Isabella Lores-Chavez, associate curator of European paintings, will discuss how political conflict, displacement, and colonial expansion throughout this period affected the work of Dutch artists, who depicted daily life and visions of the fledgling natio...
A conversation with Issac JulienIn this conversation with Isaac Julien, hear about the artist’s practice and first US retrospective, "I Dream a World." Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Julien’s film installations and videos made over the course of 25 years, presenting a compelling fusion of fact and fiction, social critique, and aesthetic immersion. About the speakers Sir Isaac Julien (b. 1960) is a critically accla...
A talk on mid-century American painting + art historyJoin Lauren Palmor, associate curator of American art, for a lecture exploring some of the mid-20th-century American painters whose profound engagement with art history reshaped the trajectory of American art. Wayne Thiebaud and his contemporaries — on both sides of the ideological divide between abstraction and figuration — drew inspiration from the past to forge new artistic vocabularies. This lecture situates Thiebaud’s reinte...
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