FALL 1998 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND SEMINAR SERIES SCHEDULE

Contact: Kate McShea Ewen, (617) 495-2397
Released: August 10, 1998

James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, and Art Museums' curators, conservators, and curatorial interns, are pleased to present this calendar of special programs and public seminars. Aside from the participation of a number of Art Museums' staff members who will draw upon original works in the collections, contemporary photographers will participate in an artist panel. All programs require a fee and advance registration; see each program for details.

LECTURE SERIES
Art and Patronage in the Islamic World
Thursdays, September 17, October 1, 15, 29, November 5
Arthur M. Sackler Museum lecture hall, 6:00 p.m.
$50 for the series; $40 for Friends
$12 for individual lectures; $10 for Friends
Advance registration is required, please call the Friends Office at (617) 495-4544 to register.
Over the course of fourteen centuries, architectural wonders, elegantly fashioned portable objects, and splendid illuminated manuscripts and albums were commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons within the Islamic world. This series of slide lectures will investigate various aspects of Islamic art and patronage which include the dynamics of the patron-artist relationship, the transformations in works of art brought about by changes in ownership, and the role of the patron in preserving cultural heritage. These lectures will discuss works of art that were created from the ninth through seventeenth century and produced throughout the Islamic world.

Thursday, September 17
A Complicated Shah, His Perplexing Nephew, and Two 'Proustian' Artists
Stuart Cary Welch, curator of Islamic and Later Indian art, emeritus

Thursday, October 1
The Past in the Present: Islamic Art and Patronage, Treasures from Kuwait
Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah, director, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah Museum of Islamic Art, Safat, Kuwait

Thursday, October 15
Manuscripts Made for Baysunghur, A Grandson of Tamerlane
David J. Roxburgh, assistant professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Thursday, October 29
From 'Houri to Nayika': Travels and Transformations of a Safavid Velvet
Mary Anderson McWilliams, associate curator of Islamic and Later Indian art.

Thursday, November 5
Emperors and Artists: Anecdotes from the Mughal Court
Rochelle Kessler, assistant curator of Islamic and Later Indian art
Dinner reservations may be made at the Harvard Faculty Club, 24 Quincy Street, following these lectures by calling (617) 495-5653. The Faculty Club will kindly accept payment in cash or by credit card from non-members attending these lectures at the Harvard University Art Museums. Complimentary parking will be available at the Broadway Garage on Felton Street between Broadway and Cambridge Street from 4-10 p.m.

Studio Visit
Tuesday, October 20; bus will depart from the Fogg Art Museum at 9:00 a.m. and will return at approximately 2:30 p.m.
$85; $65 for Friends; lunch included
Advance registration is required, please call the Friends Office at (617) 495-4544 to register.
Fox Graphics, Merrimac, Massachusetts
With Herb Fox, director, and Marjorie B. Cohn
This visit to a distinguished lithographic studio in western Massachusetts is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs. Visitors will see demonstrations of different lithographic processes. Lunch will be at the neighboring Vintage Grill, where examples of art works from the Fox studio are on display.

SEMINARS

Light Conversation: Seminars with Contemporary Photographers
Mondays, September 28, October 19, November 16
Mongan Center, Fogg Art Museum, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
$25 for the series; $20 for Friends
$10 for individual seminars; $8 for Friends
Advance registration is required, please call the Friends Office at (617) 495-4544 to register.
The Art Museums is pleased to continue these popular presentations by artists sharing and discussing their work with an intimate group of participants. Moderated by Deborah Martin Kao, Charles C. Cunningham, Sr. Associate Curator of Photographs, this fall's featured artists represent a fascinating range of style and intention in their work. Dana Salvo examines the mythical, spiritual, and social lives of Mexico's rural populations through his exquisite photographs of the artifacts of indigenous rituals; artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have collaborated for over ten years, constructing hilarious, yet pointed mock-documentary "expedition" panorama photographs, which are based on the fictional exploits of a group of

British archaeologists they call the Royal Excavation Corps; and, evoking the legacy of surrealism, New York based artist Ann Mandelbaum's complex and subtle photographs depict fragments of the body as sites of both desire and repulsion.

Behind the Image: The Materials and Techniques of Art from 1400 to the Present
Tuesdays, October 13, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Fogg Art Museum and Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
$125; $100 for Friends
Advance registration is required, please call the Friends Office at (617) 495-4544 to register. Note: People may not register for individual sessions of this seminar series.

With Marjorie B. Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Fogg; Colette C. Hemingway, Andrew Mellon Intern, Department of Paintings and Sculpture, Fogg; Deborah Martin Kao, associate curator of photographs, Fogg; Penley Knipe, Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Fellow for Advance Training in Paper Conservation, Straus Center for Conservation; Piek Larson, lecturer in visual and environmental studies, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts; Edward Saywell, John S. Newberry Research Assistant, Department of Drawings, Fogg; Susan Schwalb, artist; Ron Spronk, research associate for technical studies, Straus Center for Conservation.

Join curators, conservators, interns, a lecturer and an artist for this five-part seminar given in conjunction with exhibitions Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs and Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay to explore a wide variety of artists' materials and techniques. Discussions will be drawn entirely from original works in the Fogg's collections and will include sessions on the materials and techniques of old master and contemporary drawings, the history of lithography, and a general introduction to the techniques of photography. A discussion of the Bernini terracotta sculptures and a session in the Straus Center for Conservation will focus on those technical methods for examining works of art that allow us literally to see behind and under the surface of works of art. Participants will also enjoy two workshops during the series, the first will be on printmaking at the printmaking studio of the Carpenter Center with lecturer Piek Larson and the second will be on metalpoint drawings in the Straus Center 's Paper Laboratory with artist Susan Schwalb.

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