Program Recordings 

Boshell Family Lecture Series on Archaeology 

Jan. 18, 2013  |  Listen (1 hr 3 min)

 

 

 

Richard Phillips
Mar. 22, 2012  |   Listen (1 hr 10 min)
Known for his large-scale and hyper-realistic paintings, Richard Phillips has exhibited his work in individual and group shows internationally, and is represented in notable collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Phillips discusses his work and artistic process.

 

Mark Manders
Jan. 12, 2012  |  Listen (46 min 23 sec)

Dr. Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, discusses the work of artist Mark Manders, who creates mysterious and uncanny sculptural tableaux, inviting the viewer to “enter the world of objects and matter and find poetry in it . . . and to know how poorly we normally see our daily life.”  The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments. 

 

 

Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily 

Mar. 31, 2011  |  Listen  (54 min 31 sec)  |  Transcript

 

Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, joins artists Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily for a discussion of their work on display in solo installations as part of the Museum’s Concentrations series.

 

 

 

Jun. 3, 2010  |  Listen (1 hr 12 min 46 sec)  |  Transcript

July 23, 2009  |  Listen (53 min)  | Transcript

 

Lecture held in conjunction with the exhibition, Private Universes, May 24–August 2, 2009, which included A Truly Rich Man Is One Whose Children Run into His Arms Even When His Hands Are Empty. Bradford discusses his work, as well as recent projects in New Orleans.

 

March 22, 2007  |   Listen (40 min)  |  Transcript

Suzanne Weaver, the former Tim and Nancy Hanley Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA, leads a conversation with artist Mark Handforth. This event was held in the Museum Sculpture Garden and celebrates the commissioning and installation of Handforth’s sculpture Dallas Snake as part of the Concentrations exhibition series (Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth [Sculpture Garden], March 23 –September 23, 2007).

 

 

 

May 20, 2011  |  Listen  (1 hr 10 min 26 sec)

Known as “the doyenne of the bead world,” author and curator Lois Sherr Dubin describes how beads have been used throughout history and around the world as talismans, status symbols, religious articles, and a medium of barter. For Dubin, each bead is a capsule of cultural information, containing a fascinating tale of the origins of its materials, its multifold uses, its travels, and its potent symbolism.  Held in conjunction with Art of the American Indians:  The Thaw Collection.

 

 

Apr. 28, 2011  |   Listen (50 min 17 sec)  |  Transcript

Rhonda Garelick, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska and a well-known scholar and writer on performance, literature, fashion, and cultural politics, will explore Coco Chanel’s influence on fashion as well as in literary and artistic circles in Paris. Chanel’s Mediterranean villa, La Pausa, also hosted many cultural luminaries, including Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. Five rooms of the Villa La Pausa were re-created at the Dallas Museum of Art to house the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern European art.

 

 

Apr. 15, 2011  |   Listen (53 min 42 sec)  |  Transcript   

 

Curator Kevin W. Tucker presents an entertaining perspective on the history of the bungalow and its romantic appeal as the ideal suburban American home in the early 20th century. 

 

 

Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University

Mar. 10, 2011  |  Listen (1 hr 57 sec)

When the term “Arts & Crafts” was invented in the late 19th century, it implied very different things than it does today; for some it signified a philosophy and a way of life, while for others it was a style. Eidelberg explores American artists’ varied responses to the challenges   and tensions of an urban, industrial society and the demands of art at the turn of the century.

 

In conjunction with the exhibition of The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, Dr. Brine examines the roles played by works of art in the Netherlands at the time of the Valois dukes. This lecture considers the spectacular tomb of John the Fearless in the context of other funerary monuments made for his relations, his successors, and his subjects during a period when Burgundian art was internationally renowned for its splendor and innovation.

Dr. Christopher Roy, Professor of Art History, University of Iowa

Be transported to Burkina Faso, in West Africa, where people in rural farming towns use masks in performances to make the spirits of nature visible. These spirits control the forces of nature, bring good rains and abundant crops, and protect the villagers from accidents and disease.

Olivier Meslay, Senoir Curator of Painting and Sculpture, DMA

May 21, 2010  |  Listen  (47 min 33 sec)  | 

 

Recreated in the DMA to house the Reves Collection, Villa La Pausa was already a house full of art and glittering guests before it was home to Wendy and Emery Reves. 

 

 

Dr. Roslyn A. Walker, Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific and The Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art, DMA,  walks through the exhibition African Headwear: Beyond Fashion and discusses the materials, significance, and artistry of the hats on display.

 

 

 

 

June 29, 2011  |  Listen (47 min 52 sec)

C3 Visiting Artist Rebecca Carter talks about objects and themes in Encountering Space in addition to her own projects. Carter’s works explore states of intimacy and alienation as they shift through reading, touch, and other states of reception. She engages processes of appropriation, tracing, erasing, reconstructing, and the performative in various media.

 

 

 Art of the American Indians: Exploring the Art of the Southwest 

Apr. 20, 2011  |   Listen (53 min 15 sec)

Ann Abernathy, AIA, worked on the restoration of Wright’s Oak Park home and studio and is the project lead for the Kalita Humphreys Theater renovation in Dallas. In this talk, she discusses prints in the exhibition Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio (through July 17, 2011). Widely recognized as one of the most important architectural publications of the 20th century, the portfolio included a comprehensive selection of Wright’s designs spanning the years from 1893, his first year as an independent architect, to his departure from his Oak Park studio in 1909.

 

 

 

 

Mar. 17, 2011  |  Listen (48 min 16 sec)

 

 

Charles Wylie,The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA, joins Marianne Stockebrand, Director Emerita of the Chinati Foundation, for a discussion about the legendary sculptor Donald Judd and his ideas of the role of art and museums in contemporary culture.  

 

 

 

Mar. 16, 2011  |  Listen (39 min 49 sec)

 

 

DMA curator Jeffrey Grove, The Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, joins the artist for a conversation about his work, which incorporates text, biomorphic shapes, and diagrams to create canvases that “rumble with the energy and look of urban life.” Schumann’s work Nomads is in the DMA collection.

      

     

 

Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA

Dr. Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, DMA

Carolyn Bess, Director of Programming, Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA, and Ryan Taylor, Arts & Letters Live Guest Artistic Programmer

Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance
Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA
June 24, 2009  |  Listen (32 min)  |  

 

Nancy Hairston, Artist and CEO of VanDuzen, Inc.

Dr. Roger F. Molina, Distinguished Chair and Associate Director of Arts & Technology, and Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas

Robert Stein, Deputy Director, DMA

  

Graeme Jenkins, Music Director, Dallas Opera.

Oct. 14, 2010 | Listen (1 hr 03 min 59 sec) | Transcript

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

May 3, 2012  |  Listen (53 min)

In celebration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, writer and historian Hugh Howard shares insights about his newest book, Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple and the Second War of Independence.

 

 

Apr. 12, 2012  |   Listen (67 min)

Dr. Monica L. Smith, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Los Angeles, explores the origins of Buddhism and its effects on the people of India and Nepal. For nearly a thousand years, Buddhism was the prevailing religious tradition in the subcontinent, providing a pulse of inspiration so strong that it was carried along the sea routes to Southeast Asia and the Silk Route to China, Japan, and Korea. As it spread, the art and architecture of Buddhism underwent significant changes, providing insights into the way in which this religious tradition was adapted in each culture.

 

Mar. 29, 2012  |  Listen (1 hr 18 min)

Presented in conjunction with Arts & Letters Live. Madeline Miller, the author of " The Song of Achilles," discusses her new work and creative process.  She is joined by Michael Connolly, Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of Acting at Southern Methodist University, for a discussion about ancient Greek tragedies from a performance perspective.

 

 

Monuments of Stone: The Art and Architecture of Great Zimbabwe
Feb. 23, 2012  |   Listen (1 hr 17 min)
The magnificent stone walls of Great Zimbabwe are sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most dramatic prehistoric site.  Dr. William J. Dewey, Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State University, looks at the social and economic forces that contributed to the rise of this great southern African kingdom of the 13th and 14th centuries, examining the stunning architecture that symbolically asserts the status and prestige of the royals living there. 

 

The Hindu Art of Love: Illustrating the Kama Sutra
Jan. 5, 2012  |   Listen (47 min)

Sexual pleasure and religious ecstasy were often united in ancient India. Dr. Anne Bromberg, the DMA’s Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and Asian Art, discusses works in the DMA collection that illustrate the Hindu nature of love.

 

 

 

Dec. 1, 2011  |  Listen  (58 min)

 

Apr. 21, 2011  |   Listen (1 hr 04 min 44 sec)

 

Distinguished scholar and author Elizabeth Wayland Barber explores the Silk Road, the collection of trade routes where luxurious goods, technologies, and ideas were exchanged between East and West. For almost three thousand years, the Silk Road created important paths for traders, merchants, and pilgrims between China and India, the Persian Empire, and Mediterranean countries.

The True History of Chocolate
Michael D. Coe, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Yale University
Apr. 20, 2006  |  Listen (55 min)  |  Transcript

Feb. 18, 2011  |  Listen (53 min 37 min)

Lise Tréhot was Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s companion between 1866 and 1872 and one of his favorite models during that time. Distinguished art historian John House explores Renoir’s paintings of Lise, including two important works in the DMA’s Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, and the varied guises in which he represented her.

In 1880 sculptor Auguste Rodin was asked to create a monumental decorative portal, The Gates of Hell.  Three important sculptures by Rodin in the DMA’s Wendy and Emery Reves Collection are products of this creative process.  

Apr. 1, 2010  |  Listen (1 hr 31 min 32 sec)  |  Transcript

Dr. Belinda Thomson, independent art historian and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, considers the works by Edouard Vuillard in the Dallas Museum of Art's collections and examines to what extent the effectiveness of these works depends upon Vuillard's relationship with each subject.

 

Dr. Richard Thomson, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, looks widely at Lautrec's images of figures seen from behind to compare his work with contemporary artists such as Edgar Degas and, in a larger context, with parallels in French theater and psychology

Feb. 19, 2010  |  Listen (1 hr 09 min 58 sec)  | 

 

Manet: Models, Portraits, and "La Vie Moderne"
Dr. Nancy Locke, Associate Professor of Art History, Penn State University
Nov. 12, 2009  |  Listen (49 min 04 sec)  |  Transcript

 

 

 

Nov. 8, 2012  |  Listen (60 min)

For the Ninth Annual Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture, Anne Poulet, former director of the Frick Collection, discusses the work of French sculptor Clodion, including two masterpieces in the Michael L. Rosenberg Collection. These terracotta sculptures of running bacchantes, followers of the Roman god Bacchus, are perfect examples of the artist's technical prowess and dynamism.

 

Jan. 27, 2011  |  Listen (1 hr 08 min 39 sec)  |  Transcript