Tuesday, July 8, 12:30 – 1:30pm
Members free; registration required.
About the Talk
Members of the Barnes and audiences of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver are invited to this special online program that explores philosophical, architectural, and aesthetic connections between the two institutions. Inspired by the visions of their namesakes—collector Albert Barnes and abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still—this conversation features Bill Perthes, Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes, and Joyce Tsai, director of the Clyfford Still Museum. Perthes and Tsai will discuss the role of stewardship and pose questions about specific works that encourage viewers to look closely, notice details, and take on new perspectives.
This talk will be livestreamed on the Barnes’s Visual Experience Platform (VXP), a new technology that allows users to zoom in on works of art and see up-close details like never before.
Registrants will be emailed a link for the talk the day prior.
People
William Perthes
Perthes is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes. His background is in philosophy and art history, and much of Perthes’s work explores how experiences with works of art can influence fields as varied as business, medicine, law enforcement, and restorative justice. He curated Faces of Resilience, a traveling exhibition of original works by currently and formerly incarcerated artists. In addition, his scholarship has focused on American modernism and the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.
Joyce Tsai
Tsai is the director of the Clyfford Still Museum and an internationally acclaimed curator, scholar, and teacher. She arrived at Clyfford Still Museum from the University of Iowa, where she served as chief curator of the Stanley Museum of Art and associate professor of practice in the School of Art and Art History. Tsai trained as an intellectual historian and art historian and earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
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