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Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night.

Art in Focus

Keidra Daniels Navaroli


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Face It!
An Introduction to Modern Portraits

Thursday, January 28, 2027, 10am
John and Jeanne Rowe Performance and Learning Center
Keidra Daniels Navaroli, lecturer

From Impressionism to Abstraction, this lecture explores modern portraiture through the complex, iconic, often controversial and groundbreaking works by artists such as Manet, Van Gogh, Sargent, Kahlo and Warhol.

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Family Ties
Artistic Responses to Love, Loss and Intimacy

Thursday, February 25, 2027, 10am
John and Jeanne Rowe Performance and Learning Center
Keidra Daniels Navaroli, lecturer

Throughout history, art has been a vehicle for the expression of emotional longing, vulnerability, grief and connection. Learn how artists like Mary Cassatt, Henry O. Tanner, Gustav Klimt, Norman Rockwell, Dorothea Lange, Grant Wood and others visualize desire, heartbreak, affection and family. 

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[In]famous
Unconventional Approaches to Artmaking

Thursday, March 25, 2027, 10am
John and Jeanne Rowe Performance and Learning Center
Keidra Daniels Navaroli, lecturer

Is a banana duct-taped to a wall really art? In this lecture we examine what makes a work of art famous. Is it scandal, innovation or something else? Don’t miss this exciting look at the art that challenges our expectations.

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Top image: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890). The Starry Night (detail), 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4 in. Museum of Modern Art. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange), 472.1941. Public Domain. Second image: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890). Self-Portrait, 1889. Oil on canvas, 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. National Portrait Gallery. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1998.74.5. Public Domain. Third image: Cassatt, Mary. Self-Portrait. Circa 1180, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Fourth image: Yue, Minjun. A-maze-ing Laughter. 2009, Morton Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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