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Four Lectures on Art and the Home, Lecture 2: Living Rooms that Changed the World, Part 1

By Cathleen Chaffee, Chief Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Thursday, April 23, 2020

12 pm - 1 pm EDT

Gertrude Stein sitting on a sofa in her Paris studio, with a portrait of her by Pablo Picasso, and other modern art paintings hanging on the wall behind her, May 1930. Image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

FREE for members
Webinar

This spring, the Albright-Knox is presenting a member-exclusive online series of conversations with Chief Curator Cathleen Chaffee. This second lecture in the series focuses on a few key examples of living rooms that helped introduce artists and collectors who supported their work in the modern era. This study of the importance of art's circulation in domestic life will include a discussion of several important modern salons, and the collectors, including Gertrude Stein and Katherine Dreier, around which they orbited.

Registration

This series is FREE for Albright-Knox members. Register online using the links below. Please register for each of the four lectures individually if you would like to attend the entire series. You will receive an email reminder the day of the lecture with directions for joining the webinar and submitting questions. Please contact membership@albrightknox.org with any questions or for assistance.

Register Online for Lecture 1 (April 16)
Register Online for Lecture 2 (April 23)
Register Online for Lecture 3 (April 30)
Register Online for Lecture 4 (May 7)

About the Series

This spring, the Albright-Knox is presenting a member-exclusive online series of conversations with Chief Curator Cathleen Chaffee. At a moment when many of us are spending an unprecedented amount of time at home, uncover the way art has been lived with in domestic spaces, how museums have evolved from such private spaces and collections, and how modern artists have provocatively evoked the home or re-created domestic space as part of their work. Each hour-long lecture will be broadcast live, and you will have the opportunity to submit questions for discussion at the end. Learn More and View Schedule

With thanks to the Garret Club, Buffalo, where a version of these lectures was delivered in 2016.