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150 Years of Contemporary Art Lecture Series

Saturdays, September 29, 2012–March 16, 2013
11:15 am, doors open at 11 am
FREE for Members / FREE with Gallery admission for non-members

This lecture series, held every two years in conjunction with the Education Department’s docent training course, will cover the history of art from the mid-nineteenth century through 2012. Curator of Education Mariann Smith and Associate Curator of Education Nancy Spector will focus on works in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Collection as they cover both the art and the history of the past 150 years.

Saturday, September 29, 2012
Let’s Get Real

Saturday, October 6, 2012
Color, Light, and Life: The Impressionist Revolution

Saturday, October 13, 2012
Paris, Provence, and Paradise: Post-Impressionism

Saturday, October 20, 2012
World Wars and Savage Beasts: French and German Expressionism

Saturday, October 27, 2012
No lecture

Saturday, November 3, 2012
A Climb up the Mountain with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Saturday, November 10, 2012
Variations on the Cube: Cubism’s Legacy

Saturday, November 17, 2012
It’s All in Your Mind: Dada and Surrealism

Saturday, November 24, 2012
No lecture

Saturday, December 1, 2012
Not for Victorian Drawing Rooms: American Art 1900–1945, Part I

Saturday, December 8, 2012
Turning Outward and Looking Inward: American Art 1900–1945, Part II

Saturday, December 15, 2012
From Rodin to Brancusi: 100 Years of Sculpture