Art Institute of Chicago Lectures
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Art Institute of Chicago Lectures
Enjoy these audio recordings of free public lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago by the world's foremost and emerging artists and scholars. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Art Podcast and points to the original audio media at the Art Institute of Chicago's website. Access the origi...
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Exposure—Matt Keegan
Matt Keegan discusses his previous works that relate to the site-specific installation in the exhibition Exposure which grew out of the artist’s longs...
Van Gogh—The Life
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize winners for their biography on Jackson Pollock, presented their new book about Vincent Van Gogh...
Bertrand Goldberg with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner in Chicago, 1965
In this 1965 rare recording, Bertrand Goldberg leads psychologists Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner on a tour of the recently completed Marina City and...
Exposure—Heather Rasmussen
Heather Rasmussen recreates international shipping containers in miniature, crafting them by hand from colored cardstock which she then damages, arran...
Sustaining Fellows Exhibition Opening: Windows on the War—Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945
One of the special privileges of Sustaining Fellows membership is the opportunity to see exciting exhibitions before they open to the general public....
Artists Connect: Joyce Owens Connects with Marc Chagall
Painter Joyce Owens grew up in a culturally diverse neighborhood; her strong African American roots were infused with Jewish culture. Responding to th...
Byzantine Reliquary Pendants
James Robinson, British Museum, provided a rich overview of Byzantine Reliquary Pendants and reviewed the context from which they came. This podcast i...
Seeing Things: John Marin's Watercolors
Curator Martha Tedeschi explores how the artist's influential experiments in watercolor and unorthodox ideas about framing helped create modern object...
Objects Speak Back
James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, reviewed observations on how we see things with a particular look at art. He was introduced by A...
Sustaining Fellows Annual Meeting
On February 14 the Sustaining Fellows gathered for a recap of the previous year and also hear some news of things to come at the museum. After champag...
Woven Traditions: Asante and Ewe Textiles
Nii Quarcoopome, Detroit Institute of Art, highlighted selections of Asante and Ewe textiles in the Art Institute of Chicago collections. He was intro...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Jason Hill)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate, Departmen...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Heather Diack)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate, Departmen...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (David Campany)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate, Departmen...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Abigail Solomon-Godeau)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate, Departmen...
Changing Face, Changing Place—A History of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Curator Kathleen Bickford Berzock traces the history of African Art at the museum from the 1920s to the present, introducing the new installation open...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Sophie Hackett)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990. Louis Kaplan, professor of history an...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Louis Kaplan)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990. Louis Kaplan, professor of history an...
Artist Talk—An-My Le
Photographer An-My Le reviewed her work highlighting the Vietnam War reenactment scenes and those of soldiers training for Iraq. This lecture was the...
Horace Pippin's Cabin in the Cotton
Curator Sarah Kelly discusses self-taught artist Horace Pippin's layered paint technique and reviews primary sources that seem to have inspired his fa...
Arms and Armor—Harding's Castle and Collection
Stuart Pyhrr, Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses armor and Chicago's George F. Harding, Jr.'s passion for collecting it. This podcast is brought to...
Artists Connect: Isak Applin Connects with Giovanni di Paolo
Isak Applin, instructor in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute, discusses connections between his own work and p...
The Poison King's Things: Mithradates the Great
Adrienne Mayor, Stanford University, cites the Art Institute's Mithradates coin as she unwinds the treacherous tale of Rome's "deadliest" enemy. This...
Lygia Clark: A Laboratory for the End of Art
Luis Perez Oramas, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, examines Brazilian artist Lygia Clark's work. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient Ar...
The Lingam Made Flesh: Split-Level Symbolism in Hindu Art
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago, traced a centuries-old dispute on the symbolism of a genre of votary object representing Hindu god Shiva. James...
Louis Sullivan and the Development of Architectural Ornament
Alison Fisher, Art Institute of Chicago curator, spoke about Louis Sullivan and the development of architectural ornament as a part of the symposium "...
Living with Richard Nickel
Richard Cahan, historian, spoke about living with photographer Richard Nickel as a part of the symposium "From Fragment to Photograph—Interpreting Lou...
John Szarkowski's Photography and the Work of Louis Sullivan
Elizabeth Siegel, Art Institute curator, outlined the goals of the symposium "From Fragment to Photograph—Interpreting Louis Sullivan's Architecture"...
From Photograph and Fragment to History
Jeffrey Plank, University of Virginia, presented his lecture "From Photograph and Fragment to History" as a part of the symposium "From Fragment to Ph...
Experiencing Sullivan
Tim Samuelson, cultural historian for the City of Chicago, spoke on the experience of seeing Louis Sullivan's buildings as a part of the symposium "Fr...
Completing the Process: The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan
John Vinci, Vinci/Hamp Architects, discussed "Completing the Process: The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan" as a part of the symposium "Fro...
Artists Connect: Georgina Valverde Connects with a Talismanic Textile
Georgina Valverde discusses her work and the inspiration she draws from the Art Institute's collection. Inscribed with text from the Quran and encoded...
Themes in Lewis Baltz' Work
Marvin Heiferman, independent curator, discusses selected themes that run throughout Baltz' work as a part of the symposium "Four Pictures—Four Things...
Object Theory, Picture Theory, and the Photographs of Lewis Baltz
David Raskin, School of the Art Institute, explores the relationship of Baltz' photographs to Object Theory, Picture Theory, and other current theoret...
Lewis Baltz and the Postwar American Landscape
Nancy Levinson, editor of Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, discussed architecture and urban studies of the late 1960s and early 1970s con...
Museums vs. Private Collectors: The Role of Personal Taste in Acquisitions
The symposium "The Gray Collection—A Particular Eye" was opened and hosted by Suzanne McCullagh, Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator of E...
From Public to Private: Drawing in France, 1850-1900
Douglas Druick, Art Institute of Chicago, discussed "From Public to Private: Drawing in France, 1850–1900." The symposium "The Gray Collection—A Parti...
French Drawings: From Vouet to Ingres
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, National Gallery of Art, spoke on "French Drawings: From Vouet to Ingres." The symposium "The Gray Collection—A Particular...
Poussin, Drawing, and the Antique
Richard Neer, University of Chicago, spoke on "Poussin, Drawing, and the Antique." The symposium "The Gray Collection—A Particular Eye" was hosted by...
Suzanne McCullagh in Conversation with Richard Gray
Collector and connoisseur Richard Gray talks with curator Suzanne McCullagh. The symposium "The Gray Collection—A Particular Eye" was hosted by Suzann...