Exhibitions & EventsArts + Minds Lectures
Lectures and Gallery Talks
Ideas, Critiques, and New Interpretations
Join noted curators, historians, and artists at the DIA for fresh views and candid conversations on art, history, and culture.
All lectures are open to the public and free with museum admission. They take place in the DIA's Marvin and Betty Danto Lecture Hall, unless otherwise noted. For evening talks, please enter through the loggia entrance on John R Street. Parking is available in the Cultural Center log on John R across from the loggia.
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Art as Visual Expression of the Underlying Soul of a People
Thursday, February 9, 2012
7:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Medieval to Modern: New Reinstallations at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Twentieth Annual Alain Locke Awards: Toward the Metaphysical
Sunday, February 12, 2012
2:00 PM
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Collecting African American Art at the DIA
Friday, February 24, 2012
6:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Landscape/Escape: Racialized Terrain in Nineeeth-Century American Art
Sunday, March 4, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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A New Painting by Juan Valdés Leal at the DIA
Friday, March 9, 2012
6:30 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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The Arabic Text on the Muqarnas Ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily
Saturday, March 10, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Expanding the Field of Vision: Modern Art in Nigeria and Cultural Diplomacy in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Sunday, March 11, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Pespectives on Photography – Detroit: Panel Discussion
Friday, March 16, 2012
7:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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In Conversation with Beth Lipman
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
7:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Painting with Pottery in the Peacock Room
Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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In Conversation with Hernan Bas
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
7:00 PM
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Thomas Cole as Transatlantic Romantic
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
6:30 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939
Saturday, May 12, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Motivated by the Challenge to Live and Create Authentically
Sunday, May 20, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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Dr. Coleman Mopper Memorial Lecture: The Israel Museum: Renewal and Reinvention
Saturday, May 21, 2012
2:00 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall
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The True Sources of Hiroshige’s Famous Tokaido Series (1832–33)
Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00 PM
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Masterpieces of Boston Furniture at the DIA: 1650–1850
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
6:30 PM
Location: Marvin & Betty Danto Lecture Hall