Event: HOW THE NINTH STREET WOMEN CONQUERED THE ART WORLD
Organizer: SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES
Speakers: Nancy G. Heller
Tickets: $35 (concessions may apply)
Date: Aug 3rd 6:30pm Pacific Time (USA). Equivalent times:
Americas - PT: Aug 3rd 6:30pm | ET: Aug 3rd 9:30pm.
Europe - UK: Aug 4th 2:30am | CET: Aug 4th 3:30am.
APAC - CST/HKT/SGT: Aug 4th 9:30am | AET: Aug 4th 11:30am.
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"Abstract Expressionists. It was a label applied to the artists behind a revolutionary development in post-World War II American painting. It conjures up images of a rowdy boys’s club where the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Franz Kline met in the Cedar Tavern to drink, start fistfights, and trade boasts about their sexual conquests. But a group of female abstract expressionists were also making important contributions to this avant-garde movement...
Most notable among them were five painters whose work was featured in the groundbreaking Ninth Street Art Exhibition of 1951, in New York’s Greenwich Village. Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler—the so-called “Ninth Street Women”..."
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Event: COLOR THEORY AND PRACTICE
Organizer: SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES
Speakers: Theresa Ottenson
Tickets: $175 (concessions may apply)
Date: Aug 4th 6:30pm Pacific Time (USA). Equivalent times:
Americas - PT: Aug 4th 6:30pm | ET: Aug 4th 9:30pm.
Europe - UK: Aug 5th 2:30am | CET: Aug 5th 3:30a...
Event: THE ART OF LOOKING: JAN PIETERSZ SAENREDAM, AFTER HENDRIK GOLTZIUS, ARTIST PAINTING A NUDE WOMAN: ALLEGORY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
Organizer: NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART WASHINGTON
Tickets: Free
Date: Aug 5th 1:00pm Eastern Time (USA). Equivalent times:
Americas - PT: Aug 5th 10:00am | ET: Au...
Event: THE ARTISTIC LEGACY OF ANCIENT GREECE
Organizer: SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES
Speakers: Nigel McGilchrist
Tickets: $90 (concessions may apply)
Date: Aug 6th 9:30am Pacific Time (USA). Equivalent times:
Americas - PT: Aug 6th 9:30am | ET: Aug 6th 12:30pm.
Europe - UK: Aug 6th 5:30pm | CET: ...
