On the occasion of the public opening of four solo exhibitions—Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj: Studies for A Minor History of Trembling Matter, Jacob Kassay: OTNY, Eric N. Mack: Vogue Fabrics, and Willa Nasatir—please join us for a conversation between the artists and Senior Curator Cathleen Chaffee. 

Artist Isaac Julien will discuss how he unites different artistic disciplines to create a unique poetic visual language and topography in audio-visual film installations.

On the occasion of Picasso: The Artist and His Models, join Dr. Katie Hanson, Assistant Curator of Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as she discusses the MFA Boston’s Rape of the Sabine Women and the Fondation Beyeler’s The Rape of the Sabines.

On the occasion of Picasso: The Artist and His Models, Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee will speak about the complex dynamic between Picasso and Matisse in the first decade of their acquaintance.

This lecture will be the first opportunity for an in-depth discussion of the true importance of this recent acquisition and of Gates’s international prominence in contemporary art.

Although this work was made in 1989 it is a very recent acquisition of the Albright-Knox, and this will be the first opportunity to hear about its importance in the context of the museum’s collection and art of the period.

This group of drawings was acquired from the Panza collection in 2015, and this lecture will be the first opportunity to learn about the work’s importance in relation to the art of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Albright-Knox’s collection.

This lecture will provide greater insight into the importance of Lucas Samaras’s Room No. 2 and trace the vital precedent it set for installation-based practices in contemporary art.

A joyous painting with all kinds of hybrid creatures playing, singing, dancing, and celebrating, Harlequin’s Carnival is categorically recognized as among Miró’s greatest works.

In the summer of 1886, Paul Gauguin visited the small village of Pont-Aven in Brittany where he became fascinated with the history of peasant life and its traditional costumes, customs, and rituals.

Joan Linder will discuss her process and her exhibition Joan Linder: Operation Sunshine (on view through October 30). 

Clyfford Still Museum Director Dean Sobel will trace Still’s art and life from its beginnings in the prairies of Washington state and Alberta, Canada, to his arrival in New York in 1950 and his last years in rural Maryland.