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Docent Lecture: "Cityscapes: Modernism Arrives in America," Mina Shea

November 1, 2011 - 2:15pm - 3:00pm

Image: John Marin, Study, New York, 1934. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund and American Art Trust Fund.

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Docent Lecture: "Contours in the Air: The Sculptures of Ruth Asawa," Doris Chun

November 1, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Image: Ruth Asawa, Untitled, ca. 1950–1955. Iron wire. Gift of the artist, 2005.90.1 

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Docent Lecture: "A Docent's View—Masters of Venice: Renaissance Paintings of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, " Maureen O'Brien

October 27, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Image: Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione, The Three Philosophers (detail), ca. 1509–1509. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna

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HIDING & SEEING Performance Series, Curated by Todd T. Brown: Headmistress Presents "Labor is labor and there are two flavors and both of them are raw"

October 21, 2011 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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7:00–8:00 pm

Art History Lecture: "Venetian High Renaissance Paintings from Vienna," by Curator Lynn Orr, PhD

October 20, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Lynn Federle Orr, PhD, Curator in Charge of European Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 

Image: Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione, The Three Philosophers (detail), ca. 1509–1509. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna

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Art History Lecture: "Fact and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Genre Painting," by Dr. Kevin Muller

October 20, 2011 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Dr. Kevin R. Muller, Lecturer, Chabot College and UC Berkeley

Image: George Caleb Bingham, Boatmen on the Missouri, 1846. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd

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The Fifth Annual Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture—"20/20: Early Anatolian Kilims from the Caroline and H.McCoy Jones Collection Twenty Years After"

October 19, 2011 - 1:00pm

In collaboration with the exhibition The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection, we present a lecture by Alberto Levi. 

Following the presentation will be a panel discussion with Levi, former FAMSF textile arts curator Cathryn Cootner, and renowned Bay Area collector Jim Dixon, moderated by Ben Evans, editor of HALI Publications Ltd.

Alberto Levi has been studying tribal rugs and textiles for many years and is the owner of Alberto Levi Gallery in Milan, which is dedicated to the appreciation of antique textiles and carpets as works of art. He serves as a regular contributor to leading textile arts publications Ghereh and HALI. An active member of the International Conference on Oriental Carpets, Levi served as chairman of the Ninth International Conference on oriental Carpets in Milan and Florence in 1999.

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