Thursday Evening Salon Series

The popular Thursday Evening Salon Series returns January 2010 and runs through May 2010. All presentations take place on Thursday evenings from 7:30pm-9pm.

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Generously sponsored by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, this year the Salon Series will be free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are required.

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2010 SALON SERIES CALENDAR

January 14
Art Detectives
Presented by Jenny Reinhardt, artist and arts lecturer
Drawing on our own powers of deduction, clue finding and inference, we will discover the era, political environment and artistic message of art. This lecture will build confidence in museum-goers and let arm-chair historians put their knowledge to use.

January 28
The Representation of Women in Film
Presented by Laura Winters, Professor, Department of English, College of St. Elizabeth
This interactive presentation will explore the impact of the depiction of women in film on both male and female viewers. We will consider our favorite and least favorite images of women in film and what those choices suggest about our understanding of ourselves and of the women in our lives.

February 11
Do You Think I’m Disco: Contemporary Art and Club Music
Presented by Edwin Ramoran, Director of Programs, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
This presentation will discuss the intersection of the dance music genres of club, hip hop and house music with the field of contemporary art. A slide show and listening party of art and music produced from the 1970s to the present will be included.

February 25
Authenticity Sinks in the Sea of Context: Art Criticism Today
Presented by Dan Bischoff, Art Reviewer, Star Ledger
Artists thrive in defined cultures, but globalization is eroding nearly all cultural contexts into one ever-changing scene. We will discuss the possible avenues artists and art critics will have to take in order to remain relevant in the current cultural climate.

March 11
Cartoon Academy: The Strange History of Funnybooks and Fine Art
Presented by Adam McGovern, Comics Writer and Pop Culture Critic
Comic writer and historian Adam McGovern explores the biggest names in comic art, the biggest fine art influences on them (and vice versa) and the eternal creative tension between crowd-pleasing techniques and personal vision.

March 25
Sounds in Color, Shape and Line: Music in Modern Art
Presented by Kevin Kiddo, Lecturer in Art, College of St. Elizabeth
From James Whistler through Piet Mondrian, artists have audaciously tried to stimulate with paint the feelings we get while listening to music. We’ll take a look at some of these paintings by famous artists, as well as early experimental films and photographs, cutouts and collages; and, also listen to the sounds that inspired these “visual musicians” as they tried to “paint music.”

April 8
The Art of Fashion Photography
Presented by Claire Rosen, exhibiting artist and arts lecturer
Fashion photography, which encompasses both fine art and commercial attributes, encourages photographers to create novel imagery that, more often than not, contains cultural references to broader art, art historical and cultural movements. We will discuss formal elements of the art of fashion photography while also exploring developments, trends, imagery and popular sources of inspiration.

April 22
Erasing Borders
Presented by Mary Birmingham, Director of Exhibitions, Hunterdon Museum of Art
This presentation will discuss the works on display in the 2010 Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora. While the works will be examined against the broader context of contemporary art, we will also address several specific issues, such as migration, displacement, assimilation and cultural identity.

May 6
Art, Propaganda and Censorship
Presented by Alex Motyl, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
Professor Motyl will focus on the relationship between art & literature and propaganda & censorship. Participants will engage in a "censorship experiment", in which they produce brief literary texts while being subjected to arbitrary censorship restrictions. As a result, participants will get a feel for the way artists and writers negotiate restrictions in order to make authentic statements.

May 20
Painting the Town Red
Presented by Mark Hoebee, Artistic Director and Mimi Intagliata, Director of Production, Paper Mill Playhouse
The Paper Mill Playhouse’s Artistic Director Mark S. Hoebee and Director of Production Mimi Intagliata will lead a presentation and discussion surrounding the set and costume design for their production of ON THE TOWN. The discussion will focus on how the director’s intent for the show influenced the creative designs.