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Events This Week  
April 17-22, 2012  
LECTURE: Michael Arad
Tuesday, April 17, 6:00 p.m.

 

Architect Michael Arad, who designed the National September 11 Memorial in New York, will speak in conjunction with [space]: Constructing the Intangible.

Above: Joel Meyerowitz, After Snow (detail), 1992. © Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY.
ART FOR LUNCH: Memory and the Photographic Image
Thursday, April 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

 

Learn more about the Southeast Asian shadow puppets in the Johnson's collection.
LECTURE: Geoffrey Batchen
Friday, April 20, 5:15 p.m.

 

Writer and critic Geoffrey Batchen will give the keynote address to Saturday's symposium on Memory and the Photographic Image. No registration is required for this free event.
SYMPOSIUM: Memory and the Photographic Image
Saturday, April 21, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

 

Explore the topic of memory and photography with Guggenheim Museum curator Jennifer Blessing and artists Carrie Mae Weems and Shimon Attie. Supported by Cornell's Atkinson Forum in American Studies Program.

Registration for the symposium is free; e-mail or call 607 254-4642 to reserve a space.
Student Arts Showcase
Saturday, April 21, 8:00-11:00 p.m.

 

Celebrate the many talents of Cornell students at this special reception featuring live performances. Student artwork will be on view through Saturday, April 28.
CONCERT: Ryu Goto
Sunday, April 22, 1:00 p.m.

 

Ryu Goto will perform on the 1715 Stradivarius, known both as the "Ex-Pierre Rode" and the "Duke of Cambridge" on loan to him from the NPO "Yellow Angel."

 

SUNDAY ARTBREAK: Art Outside Part II
Sunday, April 22, 3:00-4:00 p.m.

 

In the second session of this special series, explore art found all around the Cornell campus. Be prepared to spend some time outdoors, weather permitting! Save the date for Part III, Art and Ecology, on April 29.

 

Exhibits On View  
Memory and the Photographic Image
Walker Evans, Untitled, ca. 1936

April 14-September 9      

 

Memory plays a role in a photographer's choice of subject and its interpretation, creating images that could become the only record of a moment passed. But photographs can be manipulated, so is this record truthful? This exhibition looks at the ways artists translate personal memories onto film.

 

[space]: Constructing the Intangible
Richard Estes, Untitled, 1981

April 14-July 22       

 

The annual History of Art Majors' Society exhibition explores new concepts of space in visual culture and fine art.

 

 

Age of Discontent: German Expressionist Works
from a Private Collection
Max Beckmann, Die Nacht

April 7-July 29      

 

Artists including Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and others created powerful images with figural distortion and a bold graphic style to describe the devastating aftereffects of WWI in Germany.
Witness: 20th-Century Photographic Images from the Collection of Gary and Ellen Davis
Dorothea Lange, Damaged Child

April 14-August 12       

 

Works by some of the greatest and most incisive photographers of the 20th century, including Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Garry Winogrand, and others.

 

Cornell Art Faculty
Maria Park

April 14-August 12       

 

Every two years the Johnson Museum invites members of Cornell's Department of Art to participate in a faculty exhibition featuring recent work.
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