UPCOMING EVENT
Past Events
September 2008
Opening Celebration
Thursday, September 25, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
October 2008
Amy Granat and Stefan Tcherepnin: A Live Performance of Direct Film
Thursday, October 2, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Artist Amy Granat will speak about her direct film work followed by a live screening and performance of sound and images. Granat projects her abstract films, made by scratching the surface of the film itself, and amplifies the pop, hiss and rumble of her marks as they pass through a projector's optical sound head. For this performance, Granat collaborates with composer Stefan Tcherepnin, who will further manipulate "the sound of light" through a vintage Serge Modular System (a synthesizer built by the composer's uncle, the pioneering electronic-instrument builder Serge Tcherepnin).
$5 suggested donation. Space is limited. R.S.V.P. emello@brandeis.edu, 781-736-3429
Lydian String Quartet
Wednesday, October 8, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
The first of two performances the Lydian String Quartet will play in the Rose this season. Since its formation in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet has inspired critical acclaim worldwide. The quartet's special flair and interpretive mastery of standard and contmporary repertoire has won the ensemble prizes at international competitions including the presitgious Namburg Award for Chamber Music.
Jazz at the Rose: Jon Damian Trio
Sunday, October 12, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Enjoy an afternoon of avant-garde jazz, every second Sunday at the Rose. This Sunday: Jon Damian Trio. Free with admission.
Inside View: Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy
Saturday, October 18, 2:00 p.m.
Join Michael Rush, Henry and Lois Foster Director, for a gallery tour of Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy. Hear about the Rose's extraordinary collection of art by both Surrealists themselves (Dali, Ernst, Tanguy) and those who have followed in their footsteps (Pollock, Crewdson, Stockholder). See, too, the unconventional exhibition "dreamscape" that was inspired by Marcel Duchamp's design of the 1938 International Surrealist Exhibition that was held at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris. Free with admission.
The "Art" of the Campaign Ad: Visualizing Race, Gender and Difference in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
An interdisciplinary roundtable
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Join Brandeis faculty for an interdisciplinary conversation about the "political aesthetics" of the 2008 Presidential campaign. What surface and implicit messages about race and difference are broadcast in campaign television advertisements, Saturday Night Live appearances, robocalls, and associated images? To what extent is the campaign being waged on the terrain of the unconscious? We will screen representative clips and engage in a free-wheeling conversation about the relationship between art and politics in our present moment.
Panelists include: Jill Greenlee (Politics), Ibrahim Sundiata (African and Afro-American Studies), Mark Auslander (Anthropology)
Co-sponsored by the Rose Art Museum and the M.A. Program in Cultural Production
Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith Film Screening
Thursday, October 30, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
As part of the Drawing on Film exhibition, the Rose presents a rare screening of abstract film works by Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Harry Smith (1923-1991) in 16mm format.
Boston-based avant garde filmmaker Saul Levine will introduce the silent, hand-painted films of Stan Brakhage with whom he studied in the 1970s. The films include Glaze of Cathexis (1990) 3 min.; Night Music (1986) 30 sec.; Rage Net (1988) 1 min.; and Microgarden (2001) 3 min. Painter, musicologist, shaman and filmmaker, Harry Smith, employed stickers, vaseline, paint and other materials to painstakingly create his colorful Early Abstractions #1-5, 7, 10 (created 1946-1957, total running time 23 minutes). This version includes a soundtrack taken from the LP Meet the Beatles (Capitol) which was added subsequently. $5 suggested donation. Space is limited. R.S.V.P. emello@brandeis.edu, 781-736-3429
November 2008
Food for Thought Luncheon
Wednesday, November 5, 11:00 a.m.
Join the Rose for curator led tours of the current fall exhibitions: Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy, Project for a New American Century and Drawing on Film. Tours are followed by lunch in the galleries.
Admission is $10 for members, $12 for non-members, lunch included. Advance registration required. Call 781-736-3429 or e-mail emello@brandeis.edu.
Jazz at the Rose: Bob Nieske 4
Sunday, November 9, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Enjoy an afternoon of avant-garde jazz every second Sunday of the month. This Sunday: Bob Nieske 4 with Dave Tronzo (guitar), Phil Grenadier (trumpet) and John Hazilla (drums). Free with admission.
Lydian String Quartet
Wednesday, November 12, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
The second of two performances the Lydian String Quartet will play in the Rose this season. Since its formation in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet has inspired critical acclaim worldwide. The quartet's special flair and interpretive mastery of standard and contmporary repertoire has won the ensemble prizes at international competitions including the presitgious Namburg Award for Chamber Music.
Art and Public Action: Terry Berkowitz
Thursday, November 13, in two parts:
Part I
6:30-7:30
Artist Talk: Terry Berkowitz
Presentation and Q&A
Part II
7:30-8:00
Community Engaged Dialogue
Community Respondent Presentations
Response by Terry Berkowitz
Artist Terry Berkowitz will deliver an illustrated talk about her socially engaged art including the Malaya Lola Project. The Malaya Lola (Free grandmothers) are a self-named and organized group of surviving victims of rape and torture that followed the raid and bombing of their village in the Philippines by Japanese soldiers in 1944. Through her photographic portraits and related projects, Berkowitz hopes to afford high visibility to the Malaya Lolas, create publicity around the call for legal reparations and give the women an opportunity to voice their demands in their own words. Following the artist talk, community activists in Waltham will share their experiences with art and social engagement.
Terry Berkowitz is Professor of Art at Baruch College, CUNY. A visual artist whose work is based on social and political issues, Berkowitz produces single-channel videos and mixed media installations that include video, sound, and objects. She has had one-person exhibitions at, among other places, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and Metrònom, Barcelona. She has also been included in many group exhibitions in the US and abroad including Emap, Seoul, Korea; Dislocations/Transitions, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio; and Construction in Process, Lodz, Poland and El Sueno Imperativo, Madrid, Spain. Berkowitz is a Fulbright Fellow and recipient of grants and awards from, among other sources, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Macdowell Colony for the Arts. This event is co-sponsored by The Rose Art Museum, Iskwelahang Philipino, Pilipino - American Association of New England (PAMAS), and the M.A. Program in Cultural Production.
Inside View: Project for a New American Century
Saturday, November 15, 2:00 p.m.
Join guest curator Randi Hopkins for a tour of recent acquisitions. Free with admission.
Symposium: Duchamp and the Legacy of Surrealist Exhibition Design
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 6:30
Free and open the public
Exhibitions are open at 6:00
Keynote Speaker
Lewis Kachur, Kean University, Author of Displaying the Marvelous
"Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Exhibition"
Duchamp's public recognition derived from a notorious exhibition, the furor surrounding his Nude Descending a Staircase at the NY Armory show of 1913. He began to investigate exhibiting as a mode of framing the concerns of his art. By the 1938 Exposition internationale du surréalisme, Duchamp led the group in transforming the exhibition space into an elaborate, environmental work of art. In later Surrealist exhibitions, he involved younger artists, including a fruitful exchange with Robert Rauschenberg. Selected examples will suggest Duchamp's influence on contemporary installation art continues to this day.
7:15 Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy
Michael Rush, Curator and Henry and Lois Foster Director
7:35 Interdisciplinary Responses to the exhibition and Displaying the Marvelous
Mark Auslander, Brandeis University, Anthropology, Cultural Production
Andreas Teuber, Brandeis University, Philosophy
December 2008
Jazz at the Rose: Tom Hall
Sunday, December 14, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Enjoy an aftenoon of avant-garde jazz every second Sunday of the month. This Sunday: Tom Hall. Free with admission.
January 2009
Opening Celebration
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Please join us as we celebrate the opening of our winter 2009 exhibitions, Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950, Saints and Sinners, and Master of Reality. Free and open to the public.
Lydian String Quartet Noontime Concert
Wednesday, January 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Inside View: Master of Reality
Saturday, January 31, 2:00 p.m.
Hear the unique perspective of an artist-as-curator during a gallery tour of Master of Reality with Joseph Wardwell, Assistant Professor of Painting.
February 2009
Jazz at the Rose: Eric Hofbauer and Garrison Fewell
Sunday, February 8, 2:00 p.m.
Boston's finest Jazz groups perform at The Rose during exhibitions on the second Sunday of the month. This Sunday: Eric Hofbauer and Garrison Fewell.
Symposium: The Artist and The Architect: Hofmann and Sert
Monday, February 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (galleries open prior to the program at 5:30 p.m.)
In 1950, at the invitation of gallerist Samuel Kootz for the exhibition "The Muralist and Modern Architect," Hans Hofmann created nine painting studies for a series of murals for Josep Lluis Sert's plan for the rebuilding of the city of Chimbote in Peru. Speakers include Eric Mumford, Associate Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, Sandy Isenstadt, Assistant Professor of Art History, Yale University, and Special Collections librarians Mary Daniels and Ines Zalduendo, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Town Meeting at Rose Art Museum
Tuesday, February 10, 6:30 p.m.
Open to the public. A town meeting to discuss recent decisions concerning the Rose.
Food for Thought Luncheon
Wednesday, February 18, 11:00 a.m.
Join The Rose for curator led tours of the current exhibitions: Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950, Saints and Sinners, and Master of Reality. Tours are followed by lunch in the galleries. Admission is $10 for members, $12 for non-members, lunch included. Advanced registration required. Call 781-736-3429 or email emello@brandeis.edu
March 2009
Inside View: Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950
Saturday, March 7, 2:00 p.m.
Join exhibition curator Michael Rush, Henry and Lois Foster Director of The Rose, for a tour of Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950.
Jazz at the Rose: Charlie Kohlhase
Sunday, March 8, 2:00 p.m.
Boston's finest Jazz groups perform at The Rose during exhibitions on the second Sunday of the month. This Sunday: Charlie Kohlhase.
Lydian String Quartet Noontime Concert
Wednesday, March 11, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Meet the Curator: Laura Hoptman
Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 p.m. (galleries reopen prior to the program at 5:30 p.m.)
Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, speaks about the exhibition Saints and Sinners and two approaches stemming from modernism that continue into the 21st Century: one that integrates art into the world that surrounds it and another that employs forms that appear in counter-distinction from those found in nature and culture.
Preserving Trust: Art and the Art Museum amidst Financial Crisis
Monday, March 16 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
An interdisciplinary symposium. Panelists include literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt, poet Robert Pinsky, and author Claire Messud. Moderator: Mark Auslander (Anthropology, Cultural Production, Brandeis University)
This symposium is prompted by the global controversy over the recently proposed closing of Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum and the selling of some or all of its permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, in order to meet general university financial needs. At a time of financial crisis, what is the utility of art and of museums, in universities and in other contexts? Is art the most dispensable and disposable of assets when times are tough? Conversely, might art and museums be understood as especially valuable at moments of economic and social distress, helping to remind a society of its core values, exposing citizens to cultural difference, and providing vital spaces for community-building and democratic debate?
Panelists will give particular attention to the dynamics of "trust" and cultural heritage in the academy and the wider world. To what extent do institutions of higher education hold art and scientific collections as a "sacred trust" for the public? In what respects can and should public museums help build trust and community across the often fractious lines of the body politic? What new models of the museum and its position within universities and the wider social field should be explored in the 21st century?
Note: The proceedings will be streamed live on the Cultural Production ustream channel, and also posted on YouTube: http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/culturalproduction/transformations/YouTube.html
Art in Context: Irving Sandler
"Hans Hofmann: Joie de Vivre"
Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. (galleries reopen prior to the program at 5:30 p.m.)
Art Historian and critic Irving Sandler, will speak about joy in Hans Hofmann's abstract expressionist paintings. Sandler contributed to the catalogue for the exhibition Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950.
In the early 1950s, Sandler himself tried his hand at painting, but after meeting many artists who he admired while he was working as a gallery manager in New York, he soon became a chronicler and critic of abstract expressionism. In 1954, Sandler began taking copious notes of conversations with artists at their studios and informal gatherings which would later inform his published writing. In 1956, he became director of the Tanager Gallery, Chairman of Artist's Club and a reviewer for Art News and Art International. He began teaching at New York University in the 1960s and later at SUNY - Purchase. A supporter of emergent artists and an arts advocate, Sandler co-founded Artists Space in 1972, a non-profit alternative gallery that was established in response to the difficulty Artists faced receiving support from government funding agencies. The exhibition space helped to launch the careers of artists such as Laurie Anderson, Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Judy Pfaff and many others.
In the 1970s, Sandler began to synthesize his reviews and interviews into surveys of contemporary art, including The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism (1970), The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (1978), American Art of the 1960s (1988), Art of the Postmodern Era: From the late 19060s to the early 1990s (1996) and A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir (1993, 2004). His recent publications include Avant Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History (2006) and Abstract Expressionism: Rethinking the Critical Decade (2009).
April 2009
The Second Annual Symposium on the Pedagogy of the Imagination
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Arresting Moments:
Wonder and the Pedagogy of the Imagination
“Wonder” occupies an ambiguous position in educational institutions and pedagogic endeavors. We consider in this symposium the “drop dead” moments of wonder in the face of a great work of art or performance. How are these moments usefully to be understood, framed and built upon? The Medieval Church sought to regiment and appropriate such arresting moments in various ways, and it is interesting to ponder how modern educational institutions, universities among them, at times follow in those footsteps, or might, rather, revel in the ‘punctum’ of creative epiphanies. Brandeis faculty and graduate students, arts educators from on and off campus, and teachers, will address the theme from a variety of perspectives.
For a schedule of speakers and presentations:
http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/Arresting+Moments
RSVP: Helpful but not necessary.
email: Imagination@brandeis.edu
Co-sponsors: Master of Arts in Teaching/Education program, Department of Philosophy, Cultural Production program, Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Rose Art Museum
Education Matters in the Museum
Monday, April 6th
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Distinguished Alumni return to campus to address what the Rose Art Museum has offered our students over the years, and what can be gleaned from this most productive experiential learning practice in the arts at Brandeis.
Gary Tinterow ‘76
Engelhard Chairman, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kim Rorschach '78
Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Reva Wolf ’78
Professor of Art History, State University of New York, New Paltz
Andrea Aronson Morgan '80
Associate Director, Institutional Giving, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Karen Chernick '06
PhD graduate student, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Professor Nancy Scott, Michael Rush, Director of the Rose Art Museum and
Emily Mello, Director of Education at the Rose will moderate.
Organized by ad hoc student committee: Stella Liberman, Maarit Ostrow,
Andrea Fineman, Nera Lerner, Julia Sferlazzo & Aly Young.
Reception to follow.