Smithsonian American Art Museum
It's that time again! Working with Washington College and our sister museum, the National Portrait Gallery, we've put together another great schedule of speakers for the 2012 American Pictures Lecture Series. The series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works with leading figures of contemporary American culture. For those of you wanting to attend, please note that all talks begin at 2 p.m. and free tickets are required and available in the museum's G Street Lobby beginning at 1:30 p.m. If you can't join us for any of the dates below, webcasts of the talks will be posted to our site at americanart.si.edu/multimedia/webcasts after the fact.

Mandy
Public Affairs Associate

 

 

 

Maira Kalman

 

MARCH 24 │ Maira Kalman
on Diane Arbus's Untitled (8)
(1970-71)
Renowned illustrator and contributor to The New Yorker, Maira Kalman speaks about a strange and haunting Diane Arbus photographof five adults in Halloween costumes.

 

 

Tony Horwitz

 

APRIL 7 │ Tony Horwitz on
Old Peter Hansen Balling's
 
John Brown (1872)
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, travel writer, and historian Tony Horwitz wrote four bestselling books. His subject is a gripping portrait of abolitionist John Brown in captivity--a painting that hides as much as it reveals.

 

 

Edmund  Morris
APRIL 21 │ Edmund Morris on
Ronald Reagan at Bergen-Belsen (NBC television sequence, 1985)

One of the most celebrated biographers of our time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris speaks about a freeze-frame television image  that helped inspire his bestselling biography Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.

 

James McBride
MAY 12 │ James McBride on
Julian Wasser's
James Brown during a Performance at the Shrine
(1969)
Acclaimed memoirist, novelist, and screenwriter James McBride speaks about Julian Wasser's iconic photograph of James Brown performing at the Shrine Auditorium.
 
All programs free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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IMAGES | Maira Kalman, photo by Rick Meyerowitz | Tony Horwitz, photo by Randi Baird | Edmund Morris, photo by Leslie Lillien Levy  | James McBride, photo by Chia Messina

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