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, March 8: "The Really Funny Thing About Tragedy"
Simon Critchley (pictured)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Rice Humanities Building, Room 117

English-born Simon Critchley works in continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, literature, contemporary art, ethics and politics. His books include The Dead Philosophers (2009) and On Humor (2002). Since 2008 he was been chair of philosophy at New York’s New School for Social Research.

Critchley is series moderator of the New York Times Opinionator philosophy blog, “The Stone.”

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.