VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Holocaust Museum Houston presents Ceremonies of Remembrance: The Holocaust Art of Samuel Bak. Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM.

Over the past 20 years, artist Samuel Bak has created a body of work designed to express in visual terms the impact of the Holocaust — and by extension, subsequent atrocities — on modern consciousness and the intellectual and spiritual values it has cherished through the ages. His canvases, some of them of monumental size, challenge the imagination to confront a new vulnerability in human experience, dramatizing through their fractured images the dilemma of how to “repair,” in memory if not in fact, what can never be reclaimed.

Throughout his career as a scholar and author, Lawrence L. Langer, (pictured) professor of English emeritus at Simmons College in Boston, has consistently urged his audiences and readers to consider the difficulties of confronting the history, memory, literature and art of the Holocaust and will discuss Bak's work in this free public lecture.

Seating is limited, and advance registration is required. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx  to RSVP online. For more information, call 713-942-8000 or e-mail events@hmh.org.