Inspired by the special exhibition The Mourners, Asteria presents a lecture and concert of medieval music. Take home their music after the event: the Museum Store will be selling Le Souvenir de Vous me Tue, Soyes Loyal, and Un tres doulx regard. Enjoy a sample now.
Lecture: "In Search of the Lost Song: Bringing Medieval Chansons to Life" Florence Gould Theater
1:00 p.m.
How do you bring alive today music that was written half a millennium ago?
"Figures in a Landscape: The Beauty of Pissarro's People," special lecture by James Housefield
Florence Gould Theater
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Like his fellow impressionists, Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) found new types of beauty in the French landscape. Yet Pissarro forged a distinct approach to Impressionism through the integration of figures into the landscape. Pissarro's art thus paved new ways to depict the complex geographies of modern France. This illustrated lecture examines how Pissarro's idea of beauty embraced the human transformation of the landscape.
In Florence Gould Theater
2:00 p.m.
Film Screening: "Art in the Face of War," directed by David Baugnon (2006, 76 min.)
Eight World War II veterans and artists recount their experience in the service and their use of art as journalism, as a tactical tool, and as a way to preserve their own sanity. Covering all branches of the military (including the once top-secret Deception Corps), the participants enlighten, challenge, and even amuse with their powerful imagery, showing that war is indeed hell but that creativity and hope can exist in the face of destruction.
Image: Hans Cranach, Portrait of a Lady of the Saxon Court as Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1537–1540. Oil on beech wood panel. Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection.
