Artist Talk: Amalia Pica
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for an artist talk with Amalia Pica, internationally renowned London-based Argentinian artist whose major commissioned installation Drawn to Explain has just been completed at the Craige Parking Deck on UNC's campus. Pica will discuss how this very large-scale, multifaceted work fits within her broader body of work, which often explores systems of communication…
TOUR: A Closer Look at “Reform to Restoration”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830). Free. No ticket needed!
F.A.M. Fun in the Galleries
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDrawing activities for the whole family inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition Reform to Restoration. No ticket needed; drop in all afternoon! ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830) presents over eighty master drawings from The Horvitz Collection, the preeminent private collection of French art in the…
Ackland Film Forum: “Magnolia” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMagnolia Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999 Introduced by Aspect: Journal of Film & Screen Media Everything uncannily intersects in Magnolia: the past, the present, emotional traumas, diseases, network television, crimes, false representations, family disasters, geography of the San Fernando Valley, Biblical plagues, whirling camera movements, and more. P.T. Anderson’s operatic melodrama is one of the…
TOUR: A Closer Look at “Reform to Restoration”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830). Free. No ticket needed!
Ackland Film Forum: “JFK” (Oliver Stone, 1991)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJFK Dir. Oliver Stone, 1991 Introduced by Prof. Michelle Robinson, American Studies As one of the most epic conspiracy thrillers ever conceived, JFK investigates the perpetually unsolved murder of an American president. Set largely in New Orleans, this sprawling, kaleidoscopic film bombards us with all manner of facts and paranoid theories while Robert Richardson’s highly…
TOUR: A Closer Look at “Reform to Restoration”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830). Free. No ticket needed!
Art & Literature at the Ackland
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Dana Cowen (Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950, Ackland Art Museum) and Professor Ellen Welch (Romance Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill) for a tour and lively discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker and the Ackland's current exhibition Reform to Restoration. Participants will receive a copy of the book in…
TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view from the Ackland's collection.
Last Look Tour for “Reform to Restoration”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA final look at the fabulous French drawings of the Horvitz collection, led by Reform to Restoration curator and Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950 Dana Cowen. Space is limited; free tickets required. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830) presents over eighty…