2003-2004
Stieren Arts Enrichment Series
Art:
Artist Gary Kuehn, professor of art at Mason Gross School for the
Arts at Rutgers University,
will
deliver a public lecture on his work in sculpture and painting on Monday,
February 2, 2004. Kuehn, a sculptor and painter who has exhibited in New York
and Europe for the past 30 years, was originally associated with the
post-minimal, process and material movement. His lecture will focus on his work
in the context of late 20th century cultural developments.
Art
History:
A symposium on sculpture entitled The Sculptural Body and the Public Realm
will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2004. The three guest participants
will be: Nicholas Penny, curator of sculpture at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington DC, who will speak on the body in Renaissance
sculpture; Steven Nash, curator of the Nasher Sculpture
Collection in Dallas, who will describe his role in creating this important new
museum; and independent curator Mary Jane Jacob of Chicago, who
will address her long involvement in public art issues.
Communication:
Two events are proposed under the title Understanding the Popular Arts.
The first event, Critiquing and Writing about the Popular Arts,
will include a public lecture by Patricia Prijatel (Center for Magazine
Studies, Drake University) and Nicholas Fonseca (Entertainment Weekly)
and a two-day mini-residency as guest lecturers in a several Communication
Department classes; this event will occur in November 2003.
The second event, Producing for the Popular Arts, will include a
public lecture by Cindy Chupack ("Sex and the City,"
"Everybody Loves Raymond," and Glamour) and a two-day
mini-residency as a guest lecturer in several Communication Department classes;
this event will occur in March 2004.
English:
The esteemed writer of fiction and memoir, Tobias Wolff, who is also
Co-director of Stanford's well-regarded creative writing program, will deliver a
presentation in the Stieren Theater on Monday evening, March 1, 2004, and he
will appear in two classes on that Monday morning and two more classes on
Tuesday morning. A winner of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (for
The Barracks Thief, in 1985), his most famous work remains This Boy's
Life: A Memoir, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography,
the Ambassador Book Award for the English-speaking Union, and was made into a
memorable film in 1993 with Robert De Niro and (as a young Wolff) Leonardo
DiCaprio. His new and long -awaited memoir--a continuation of This Boy's
Life--will be published this fall.
Music: Baritone Nathan Gunn will
appear in recital at Trinity’s Ruth Taylor Concert Hall at 3:00 p.m. on
Sunday, February 1. On Saturday
January 30, he will work with Trinity voice students in a master class setting.
Mr. Gunn made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1997, and since that time has been
a regular performer at the Met as well has making his debuts at major opera
houses in Santa Fe, Seattle, Boston, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Glyndebourne,
England.His recordings appear on the EMI and Telarc labels. On April 2 and 3,
the Trinity Department of Music will host a mini-residency by noted scholar Christoph
Wolff, and internationally known organist Marie-Claire Alain.
Dr. Wolff is Professor of Music at Harvard University and a leading
authority on music of the 17th and 18th centuries,
particularly Bach and Mozart. Dr. Alain is one of the world’s most recorded
organists, and taught for many years at the French National Conservatory and the
Paris Conservatory. She has won
many awards and honorary degrees, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from
the American Guild of Organists in 1999. The residency will feature lectures by
Wolff and a performance and master class by Alain. The performance takes place
on Friday, April 2 at 8:00 p.m. in Margarite Parker Chapel.
Philosophy:
Stanley Cavell,
who is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of
Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University, will present a public lecture, “Two
Tales of Winter: Shakespeare and Eric Rohmer,” in Chapman Auditorium on
Wednesday evening, October 15, 2003. Eric Rohmer’s film “A Tale of Winter”
will be shown prior to the lecture, which will argue that this film constitutes
an illuminating commentary on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. On
Thursday, October 16, Professor Cavell will discuss the film, the play, and his
own essay on Shakespeare’s play with interested students and faculty.
Professor Cavell is the author of three books on film: The World Viewed, Pursuits
of Happiness, and Contesting Tears, as well as a book on Shakespeare,
Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare.