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.

Monday, December 6: "Comic Modernism"
Art Historian, Michael Leja (pictured)
Menil Foyer, 1515 Sul Ross

Michael Leja studies the visual arts in various media, primarily in the United States, in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author of Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (1993), and Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (2004), he has taught American Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia since 2005.

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.