Harvard’s Norton Lectures | WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

SIX DRAWING LESSONS

SANDERS THEATER | 45 Quincy Street | Cambridge. MA

William Kentridge (South Africa, b. 1955) is one of the most distinguished artists of our times who is known for his drawings, prints, animated films and theater productions. He recently celebrated an incredible retrospective at MoMA and can also be seen on Art21. Upcoming lectures at Harvard are a rare opportunity to see and hear the artist live.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are required and available beginning at noon on the day of each lecture at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (service charge applies to phone orders) at 617-496-2222, and starting at 2 pm at Sanders Theatre. Limit two tickets per person.

Lecture 1
Drawing Lesson One
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
Tuesday, March 20

Lecture 2
Drawing Lesson Two
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLONIAL REVOLTS
Tuesday, March 27

Lecture 3
Drawing Lesson Three
VERTICAL THINKING: A JOHANNESBURG BIOGRAPHY
Tuesday, April 3

Lecture 4
Drawing Lesson Four
PRACTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY: LIFE IN THE STUDIO
Tuesday, April 10

Lecture 5
Drawing Lesson Five
IN PRAISE OF MISTRANSLATION
Monday, April 16

Lecture 6
Drawing Lesson Six
ANTI-ENTROPY
Tuesday, April 24

Image from first lecture March 20, 2012

AIB MFA in Photography Visiting Artist Vicky Goldberg

Today

Art Institute of Boston | Auditorium | 12:30pm 

Vicki Goldberg is one of the leading voices in the filed of photography criticism. She has written for The New York Times for thirteen years, and published several books and the texts for more than twenty photographic monographs. Her books The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives and Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography were each named one of the Best Books of the Year by the American Library Association.

PRC lecture VICKY GOLDBERG

Vicki Goldberg: American Women Photographers
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 6:30 pm
BU Sargent College, Room 101
635 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
No charge for members of BU community and students of PRC member institutions >>
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Nan Goldin, Nan one month after being battered, 1984.

[PRC press release] Vicki Goldberg, one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, will discuss how and why American women photographers, most prominently Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin, came to the attention of the photography world in the late 1970s and early 1980s after lurking on the fringes for a long time. She will also examine the way the principle concerns of that first crop of important women artists, including the entire appropriation movement, have persisted to the present day and continue to influence photographers.

“One of photography’s most revered and beloved critics, Goldberg examines both the history of photography and our current state of affairs with curiosity, wit, and cutting insight.” – Photo Eye

Vicki Goldberg has published six books and written introductions to more than twenty monographs and catalogues as well as writing about photography for the New York Times for thirteen years.  Her books, The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives and Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography, were each named one of the best books of the year by the American Library Association; the anthology she edited, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present, was cited in The Wall Street Journal in 2006 as one of the five best of all books on photography. She has received numerous awards for writing, including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award, the Royal Society’s Dudley Johnston Award, and the Long Chen Cup (China).  She lectures internationally and writes on photography for various magazines.

Sze Tsung LEONG lecture @ MassArt

Tower Auditorium | Tuesday, February 14 | 2pm

Sze Tsung LEONG (American and British, born Mexico City 1970) is an artist based in New York. His work includes the series Cities, a detailed depiction of urban formations throughout the globe, from medieval towns to recent constructions, that together form a picture of the world at this particular moment in time at the beginning of the twenty-first century; Horizons, an international collection of images of natural terrains and urban landscapes that considers the relationships between far and near, foreign and familiar; and History Images, which examines the erasure of history and the reshaping of society through the built environment.

Helen Molesworth @ Lesley

Helen Molesworth | Thoughts on Exhibition Making

Thursday, April 21st, 7:00pm
Marran Theater at Lesley University
34 Mellen Street, Cambridge, MA

Reception to follow

Molesworth is the Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Coco Fusco @ Museum School

Coco Fusco: Visiting Artist Lecture | Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 12:30PM – 2:00PM

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to gain admittance.

© Coco Fusco, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert | Single Channel Video | Black and White | 2004
Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been included two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).

Sally Mann @ Harvard

The William E. Massey, Sr., 2011 Lecture in the History of American Civilization

Sally Mann will give three lectures at Harvard’s  Sackler Auditiorium | open to the public

© Sally Mann

PART I
Monday, May 2nd, 4:00pm

PART II
Tuesday, May 3rd, 5:30pm

PART III
Wednesday, May 4th, 4:00pm

Sackler Auditorium
485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts

A reception will follow the lecture
on Monday, May 2nd, in the Thompson Room,
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ed Kashi lecture @ PRC

Ed Kashi: Visual Storytelling and Documentary Photography

Photographic Resource Center | BU Photonics building room 206

Thursday, March 31 | 7 pm

The contemporary photojournalist is a storyteller with a bevy of tools at his disposal. Increasingly, media outlets rely on much more than still images to convey stories. Ed Kashi, who will be presenting an intensive seminar for the PRC (see Workshops and Seminars), has been at the forefront of this new wave of digitally enabled correspondents. In this lecture he will discuss his innovative approach to photography and filmmaking, which has resulted in numerous awards and publications over a twenty-year career. In his own words: “I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people’s minds.”

Victoria Sambunaris lecture @ MassArt

Tower Auditorium

April 5, 2011 | 2pm

© Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Man on Horse, Big Bend National Park), 2009

© Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Santa Elena Canyon, TX), 2009

© Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Farm with workers, Jacumba, CA), 2010

Victoria Sambunaris received her MFA from Yale University in 1999. Each year, she structures her life around a photographic journey crossing the American landscape. Her most recent project has been following the US/Mexican border photographing the intersection of geology, politics and culture along the volatile international boundary. She is a recipient of the 2010 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and the 2010 Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Lannan Foundation.

Leslie Hewitt lecture @ Carpenter Center

Thursday, April 7, 6 pm
Reception with the artist to follow

Make It Plain, 2006, series of five unglazed color photographs set inside of custom built frames. Installation view Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008 Two color photographs set inside of custom frames and a copy of Eastman Kodak’s Twenty‐Fourth Edition book titled How to Make Good Pictures affixed to the floor.

Working with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations, Hewitt addresses fluid notions of time. Her work oscillates between the illusionary potential of photography and the physical weight of sculpture. In her photographed arrangements, she isolates personal ephemera and the residue of mass culture to consider the fragile nature of quotidian life.