Visiting Artist Lecture: Darby English
Art + HAMMER | 7:30 p.m., Hammer Museum
Art historian Darby English probes art’s interaction with instituted forms of historical subjectivity and experience, focusing on artistic and other cultural manifestations of discomposure and optimism. He is the author of 1971: A Year in the Life of Color, How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, and the forthcoming To Describe a Life: Essays at the Intersection of Art and Race Terror. He is a University of Chicago professor and an adjunct curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.
This event is co-presented by the UCLA Department of Art and the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
Event Date: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Price: Free*
*Free tickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before the program on a first come, first served basis.
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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