In this lecture, curator Mark Rosenthal will consider the contexts in which Alex Katz’s work has evolved. Rosenthal is an independent curator, whose most recent exhibition was the acclaimed William Kentridge: Five Themes, seen at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in the spring 2010. Rosenthal has been head of Modern and Contemporary Art both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Adjunct Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York  and the Menil  Collection, Houston. He is currently Adjunct Curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has organized many exhibitions and written on a broad range of artists, including Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, as well as Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer and Jasper Johns.

 

Location: Farnsworth Auditorium, Rockland

Seating: limited to 70people

Cost: $10 members; $12 nonmembers