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, March 14: "Kara Walker Speaks About Her Art"
Kara Walker (pictured)
Menil Foyer, 1515 Sul Ross

Born in 1969, Kara Walker received an MFA in painting and printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. Winner of a MacArthur award, she represented the U.S. in the 2002 São Paulo Biennial. The Walker Art Center’s 2007 exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love was her first full-scale U.S. museum survey. She is a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at Columbia University.

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.