VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection presents the Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series.  The 2010-2011 theme is The Risible Visual: Humor & Art. The Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series, a collaborative program of The Menil Collection and the Department of Art History at Rice University, was established in 2005.

Tuesday, October 19: "The Places of Humor in Roman Visual Culture: Context and Theories"
Art Historian, John R. Clarke (pictured)
Rice Humanities Building, Room 117

In 1980, John R Clarke joined the art history faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, where his teaching, research, and publications focus on ancient Roman art, art-historical methodology, and contemporary art. He is the author of seven books including Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (2007).

All lectures are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. Please note that seating is limited, and that two lectures are at the Menil and two lectures are at Rice. For further information: Menil lectures, please call, 713-525-9400; Rice lectures, please call 713-348-4815.

Pictured below:  Saul Steinberg, Pointing Bird, 1964. The Menil Collection, Houston. © 2010 The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: F.W. Seiders.