Category: Hamon Arts Library

Skin Hunger – interactive installation in Hamon Arts Library, October 26-31

Skin Hunger screen shot

Skin Hunger is a telematic installation that plays on the zoom-style video-chat that has recently become ubiquitous. Participants can reach across their screens to virtually ‘touch’ one another.  By touching or moving together, participants create visuals and sounds that emerge and evolve from participant relation and interaction making the intangible connection tangible and also giving…Continue Reading Skin Hunger – interactive installation in Hamon Arts Library, October 26-31

Dr. Jacqueline Stewart receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

Dr Jaqueline Stewart

SMU Libraries congratulates Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, film curator, archivist and scholar, on her recent 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. Dr. Stewart has published extensively on black film and filmmaking in the United States. In her video post for the MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Stewart describes her interest in the genre of black films from the early 1920s –…Continue Reading Dr. Jacqueline Stewart receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

Report from the Red Carpet – The Velvet Underground at the Cannes Film Festival

After a thorough bout of negotiations, the previously lost film footage of the Velvet Underground performing at a Vietnam War protest at Dallas’ White Rock Lake in 1969 has made it into The Velvet Underground, a documentary directed by Todd Haynes. The documentary, mirroring the name of the band itself, contains this special footage that…Continue Reading Report from the Red Carpet – The Velvet Underground at the Cannes Film Festival

CML talk with curator, Lilia Kudelia on Oct. 6 at 5:30 pm

Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator Lilia Kudelia   Wednesday, October 6, 2021 5:30 p.m. Zoom lecture FREE Lilia Kudelia is a curator and art historian. Her research focuses on the artistic movements and infrastructures in the post-communist states, cultural heritage and restitution, television and art from the 1960s onwards. As a guest…Continue Reading CML talk with curator, Lilia Kudelia on Oct. 6 at 5:30 pm

CML talk with curator, Taylor Renee Aldridge on Sept. 22 at 5:30 pm

Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator Taylor Renee Aldridge Wednesday, September 22, 2021 5:30 p.m. Zoom lecture FREE Taylor Renee Aldridge is the visual arts curator and program manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM). Prior, she worked as a writer and independent curator in Detroit, Michigan. She has organized exhibitions with…Continue Reading CML talk with curator, Taylor Renee Aldridge on Sept. 22 at 5:30 pm

Pèl & Ploma, Spanish modernist journal, at the Meadows Museum

Two rare volumes of a Spanish modernist journal, Pèl & Ploma, are on display at the Meadows Museum until August 8. After this date, the works will return to Hamon’s unique collections housed in the library’s Limited Access. Published in Barcelona, the art and literary journal dates from 1899 – 1903. The poems, stories, and…Continue Reading Pèl & Ploma, Spanish modernist journal, at the Meadows Museum

Highlights from Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections – Barbara Maples’ Taos Fiesta

Two museums, the Meadows Museum and the Centre Pompidou, are featuring the work of Barbara Maples, a well-known printmaker. On loan from Bywaters Special Collections to the  Meadows Museum’s Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections, is Maples’ Taos Fiesta. In addition, she is one of several female artists featured in the Centre Pompidou’s…Continue Reading Highlights from Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections – Barbara Maples’ Taos Fiesta

Film Screening at the DMA: Ghosts of Lost Futures on May 22

Is a spectre haunting the archive? Do the films collected there proclaim a history that is no longer or a future that is not yet here? Is there something to reclaim in the bits of visual history that have been rescued in the archive? Have you felt the horizon closing before your eyes, the promise of the future you’ve…Continue Reading Film Screening at the DMA: Ghosts of Lost Futures on May 22

Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator May Makki on April 28

Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator May Makki Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:30 p.m. Virtual lecture; advance registration required. FREE May Makki is an independent curator interested in developing new networks of exhibition and distribution. Her current research focuses on practices that build out autonomous and collective approaches to cultural production in the…Continue Reading Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator May Makki on April 28

Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator Yina Jiménez Suriel on April 7

Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator Yina Jiménez Suriel April 7, 5:30 p.m. Yina Jiménez Suriel. Curator and researcher. She obtained her master’s degree in History of Art and Visual Culture, with a focus on visual studies from the Universitat de València. She has collaborated in different institutions, among them Casa Quien, Centro León, Kulturstiftung Basel…Continue Reading Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator Yina Jiménez Suriel on April 7

 

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