Da Camera Young Artist Concert

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Current and former Da Camera Young Artists perform works including Beethoven's Serenade, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin and Viola; Joel Love's Synchronicity in Purple Minor; Osvaldo Golijov's Lúa Descolorida; and Igor Stravinsky's Suite Italienne.

The Da Camera Young Artist Program is a fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, singers and composers designed to provide career-expanding experiences and training to the next generation of artists.

 

WITS Reading
The Watchful Eye

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Writers in the Schools (WITS) presents a unique program (initiated with the support of The Menil Collection in 1989) in which students visiting the museum write stories suggested by the artwork. At this event, The Watchful Eye, students will read their poetry and prose inspired by work in the Menil Collection.

 

Lecture
John Yau Forrest Bess

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

John Yau first wrote about Forrest Bess in the 1980s and remains fascinated by the artist's work. Yau is a poet, fiction writer, and critic, and his latest books include Further Adventures in Monochrome and A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns

 

Noontime Gallery Talk
Michelle White and Sandra Zalman on Late Surrealism

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 12:00 p.m.

Exhibition curator Michelle White and UH art historian Sandra Zalman will use surrealist drawings from the museum to trace two vital shifts in 20th century art: the movement of its capital from Paris to New York, and the concurrent replacement of figurative surrealism by abstraction. Sandra Zalman is completing a book called Surrealism and Its Afterlife in American Art: 1936 - 1986.

 

 

Walter Hopps Award Lecture
Cuauhtemoc Medina

Monday, June 10, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Independent curator Cuauhtémoc Medina is the sixth recipient of the biennial Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Established in 2001 in honor of the museum’s Founding Director, the award recognizes curators in early to mid-career who have made significant contributions to the field of contemporary art.

Cuauhtémoc Medina is a key figure in the rise to international prominence of contemporary art from Mexico City. He has organized both large survey exhibitions and projects developed with individual artists and was most recently Head Curator of the Manifesta 9 Biennial in Belgium (2012).

 

 

Film Screening
"Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle"

Thursday, June 20, 2013, 12:00 p.m.

A film by Chuck Smith. 48 minutes.

Chuck Smith is a freelance producer, writer and filmmaker who has produced documentaries for network and cable stations including PBS, Discover, and National Geographic. His film about Forrest Bess was awarded a Certificate of Merit at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival. Courtesy Checkerboard Film Foundation, New York, New York. Contains male nudity. Viewer discretion strongly advised.

 

Film Screening
"Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle"

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 12:00 p.m.

A film by Chuck Smith. 48 minutes.

Chuck Smith is a freelance producer, writer and filmmaker who has produced documentaries for network and cable stations including PBS, Discover, and National Geographic. His film about Forrest Bess was awarded a Certificate of Merit at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival. Courtesy Checkerboard Film Foundation, New York, New York. Contains male nudity. Viewer discretion strongly advised.