Lunchtime Lectures Series Fall 2017

San José Museum of Art
Lunchtime Lectures Series Fall 2017
Celebrate new ideas and make connections with art and the community at the San José Museum of Art. At noon on the first Wednesday of each month, Lunchtime Lectures feature artists, scholars, and other expert speakers who explore topics related to SJMA’s exhibitions or trends in the cultural community. Bring your lunch or grab a bite from Café Too. Free with Museum admission.

Notes to Self: The Self-Portrait in the Age of Social Media
Wed, Sep 6, 12–1 PM
Popular discourses have largely pit the selfie, which is often thought of as a symptom of a narcissistic society, against the self-portrait, which is more associated with art. Derek Conrad Murray, associate professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity after Civil Rights, will explore this debate in connection with the exhibition This Is Not a Selfie.

Movement, Memory, and Feminist Defiance
Wed, Oct 4, 12–1 PM

Ann Murphy, associate professor of dance at Mills College in Oakland, California, will take a look at artist Louise Nevelson, whose work will be on view in the exhibition Louise Nevelson: The Fourth Dimension. Murphy will explore gender, memory, abstraction, and other aspects of Nevelson’s works in relation to those same forces in modern dance in years after World War II.


El Mac
Wed, Nov 1, 12–1 PM
El Mac (Miles MacGregor) is an internationally renowned artist whose large-scale wall murals blur the lines between fine art and graffiti. He has been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, and Cuba. He will discuss his collaborations with The Propeller Group, including his new mural in downtown San José.

The Lost Ethical Language of New Deal Public Works — And Art
Wed, Dec 6, 12–1 PM
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal is shorthand for not just an attack upon the Great Depression but a vision of government that sought to promote public health in the broadest possible meaning. It left behind an enormous legacy of essential but invisible public works including a continent-spanning art gallery. Believing that the arts were fundamental to any civilization worthy of the name, Roosevelt predicted that his administration would be remembered for its art patronage after all else was forgotten. Join Dr. Gray Brechin, project scholar in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography and founder of The Living New Deal Project for this talk inspired by Crossroads: American Scene Prints from Thomas Hart Benton to Grant Wood.
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