(Un)Becoming Sculpture: Piet Mondrian's New York Furniture

May 17th, 6pm

(Un)Becoming Sculpture: Piet Mondrian’s New York Furniture
Lecture by Prof. Nancy J. Troy, Stanford University

Nancy J. Troy is Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art and Chair of the Art & Art History Department at Stanford University. In addition to The De Stijl Environment (1982), she is the author of Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Courbusier (1991), and Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion (2002). In her current book project, The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, she revists the site of her earliest art historical interest – the work of Piet Mondrain – studying both its trajectories after the artist’s death through the realms of elite and popular culture, and the ways in which the dominant historical narrative of Mondrian and his work has been shaped by art-market forces.

This lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University.

West African Dance Party

DPAM is proud to host a funky West African Dance Party on May 18th. Tony Sarabia, Chicago’s resident global music expert and host of WBEZ’s Radio M, will be providing the tunes from 8-11pm. Come dance the night away inspired by the young movers and shakers in Malick Sidibe’s photographs.

Snacks and beverages will be served.

Lecture: Christraud Geary "Keita-Mania: An African Photographer’s Ascent to World Fame"

Thursday, May 24, 6 pm

Lecture: Christraud Geary
“Keita-Mania: An African Photographer’s Ascent to World Fame”

Dr. Christraud Geary will explore the changes in fortune of Seydou Keita, a photographer from Bamako, Mali, who was a contemporary of and competitor with Malick Sidibé. Primarily a studio portrait photographer practicing around the time of Malian independence, he became world renowned in the 1990s after several of his photographs were displayed as anonymous works in the exhibition Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art, presented in 1991 at the Center for African Art in New York City.  Dr. Geary is Teel Senior Curator of African and Oceanic Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a specialist on African photography.