The Saint Louis Art Museum announces a series of Gallery Talks during April and May related to three current exhibitions: Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty, Photography on the Street and Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke.
Gallery Talks are held each Thursday and Friday at 11 am and 6 pm, respectively. These free tours offer lively and informative discussions on a variety of topics. To participate meet at the information center in Sculpture Hall. Gallery Talks held in the featured exhibition galleries are limited to 20 attendees.
Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty Gallery Talks
Featuring more than 125 magnificent works including porcelain, paintings, textiles, lacquerware, jade and precious metals, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the grandeur and opulence of one of the most important dynasties in Chinese history. The objects include not only artifacts made by imperial manufacturers but also paintings created by emperors and other high-ranking officials. Many are on view for the first time outside of China.
Date: Thursday, May 14 and Friday, May 15
Host: Philip Hu, Associate Curator of Asian Art
Topic: Power and Glory: The Ming Dynasty
Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke Gallery Talks
Berlin-based artist Claudia Schmacke works with sculptural installation and new media to explore questions of temporality and perception. Her Currents exhibition includes a gallery installation, Time Reel, and two videos in the Museum's New Media Gallery. Schmacke's two videos are Umbilicus, which she created during a residency at the Casa di Goethe in Rome in 2006 and the premier of Dark Matters 2009, which results from her recent travels to Los Angeles, where she studied and filmed the La Brea Tar Pits, an active paleontological site.
Date: Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10
Host: Charlotte Eyerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Topic: Video Art & Installation: Works by Claudia Schmacke
Date: Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22
Host: Patricia Olynyk, Director, Graduate School of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Topic: Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke
Photography on the Street Gallery Talk
The exhibition highlights the people who inhabit and move through urban spaces, sometimes captured clandestinely and sometimes engaging the photographer directly. Photography on the Street provides examples by American and European photographers Dorothea Lange, Morris Engel, Weegee (Arthur Felig), Robert Frank, Robert Doisneau, Roger Mayne, Saul Leiter, Duane Michaels and Helen Levitt.
Date: Thursday, May 28 and Friday, May 29
Host: Eric Lutz, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Topic: Photography on the Street -- www.stlouis.art.museum
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