VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection presents the Menil/Rice Lecture Series.  The 2008-2009 theme is  Museums and the Medical Humanities.

“Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation” continues the biennial series organized by the Menil Collection and Rice University’s Department of Art History. Each of the four lectures (two hosted by the Menil, two by Rice) addresses a single theme, taking inspiration from the Menil’s permanent collection. The series explores a nexus of themes and topics, aesthetic and scientific: human creativity, trauma, diagnosis, healing, reflection, prevention, and transformation.

The lectures at Rice University are made possible in part by the generous support of alumna Suzanne Deal Booth.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m. at The Menil Collection:   Richard Tuttle: “Positive Art and Positive Healing"

Artist Richard Tuttle (pictured) received his BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. Although most of his work has taken the form of three-dimensional objects, he commonly refers to as “drawing,” emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and in 2005 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organized a retrospective of his work. Richard Tuttle lives and works in New Mexico and New York