Aug
19
1:00 PM13:00

Norton Simon Museum - Depicting Modern Life - tour

DATE:

Saturday, August 19, 2023

TIME:

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

SPEAKER:

Museum educator

Discover how French artists of the 19th century used painting to represent modern life. View works by Édouard Manet and Claude Monet, and discuss how these artists captured changing landscapes and evolving social customs. Learn why artists like Pablo Picasso began to use abstraction to capture a modernizing society.

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Aug
12
5:00 PM17:00

Norton Simon Museum - Daily Bread: Food as Motif in Murillo's Paintings - Lecture

DATE:

Saturday, August 12, 2023

TIME:

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

SPEAKER:

Maggie Bell, Assistant Curator, Norton Simon Museum

Food is a poignant motif in Bartolomé-Esteban Murillo’s paintings of street life in Seville, a city that experienced waves of famine in the 17th century. In these paintings, Murillo presents a romanticized vision of people experiencing poverty—particularly children, who he shows enjoying surprisingly wholesome, even luscious-looking food despite their bare surroundings. In this lecture, Bell explores Murillo’s motivations for repeatedly including food in his genre paintings. She considers the relationship of these paintings of precarity to his religious images of charity, such as the Norton Simon’s Saint Thomas of Villanueva Giving Alms to the Poor (1665–70), which depicts pious generosity as a means of remedying bodily need.

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Jun
25
1:00 PM13:00

Norton Simon Museum - Modernist Sculpture - afternoon salon lecture

DATE:

Sunday, June 25, 2023

TIME:

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

SPEAKER:

Museum educator

Join a Museum educator for a program focusing on embodied viewing in modernist sculpture practice. Through close observation, consider the scale of the gallery or setting and the relationship between the sculpture and our own bodies, and discuss subject matter in the works.

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Nov
18
7:15 PM19:15

Gewandhausorchester, Jurowski and Vinnitskaya

Gewandhausorchester Dmitri Jurowski Dirigent Anna Vinnitskaya Klavier Sergej Rachmaninoff — 3. Konzert für Klavier und Orchester d-Moll op. 30 Sofia Gubaidulina — Märchenpoem Dmitri Schostakowitsch — 9. Sinfonie Es-Dur op. 70 Gewandhausorchester Dmitri Jurowski Dirigent Anna Vinnitskaya Klavier Sergej Rachmaninoff — 3. Konzert für Klavier und Orchester d-Moll op. 30 Sofia Gubaidulina — Märchenpoem Dmitri Schostakowitsch — 9. Sinfonie Es-Dur op. Concert detail


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Aug
26
7:30 PM19:30

Lucerne, Sanderling, El-Koury, Strauss Four Last Songs, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

8.26.2022

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
Michael Sanderling
conductor
Joyce El-Khoury
soprano

PROGRAM
19.30
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
D’un matin de printemps
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Four Last Songs
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/lucerne-symphony-orchestra-michael-sanderling-joyce-el-khoury/1780

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