Ever wonder what you’re looking at in the galleries? Personalize and enrich your visit with a guided tour. Tours are provided by an exceptionally talented and knowledgeable core of docents. Reservations are recommended. 

FREE with admission

Jean-Michael Basquiat (1960-1988) first gained fame by tagging the streets of New York City in the late 1970s and 1980s – a time when rap, breakdancing,  and street art began to define early hip-hop culture. Critics have often compared Basquiat to a DJ, writing on the ways in which the visuality of his works resonates with early hip-hop culture. Join us as Ruthie Meadows discusses the ways in which the visuality of Basquiat’s work mobilized and referenced emergent sonic techniques in DJ, house and hip-hop culture as they arose in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ruthie Meadows is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on poetics and aurality in the Hispanophone- and circum-Caribbean, including Cuba, the Dominican Republic and New Orleans.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by 9 am on September 11 to receive the Zoom link.

For registration support or questions, please email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

The Art Bite lecture series is supported by Nevada Humanities with additional sponsorship and free admission for students supported by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

David Lynch’s 1980 feature film, “The Elephant Man” is a period biography in which the director’s hallmark strangeness comes from historical fact rather than his own imagination. It’s the story of Joseph Merrick–the genetically disfigured “Elephant Man” referred to in the film as “John”–who lived in Victorian-era London. The film traces Merrick’s liberation from the exploitative world of side-show entertainment with the help of a doctor who acknowledges Merrick’s humanity. Though considered one of Lynch’s more conventional works, Elephant Man is nevertheless an extended meditation on the medium of film, through its invocation of early-cinematic culture, expressionistic visuality, and use of atmospheric and sometimes destabilizing sound. 

A discussion about this film will be led by Pardis Dabashi. Dabashi is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she specializes in 20th-Century American Literature and Film Studies. Her research examines the intersection of affect, politics, and form in the Euro-American novel and cinema of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has additional interests in problems of method and literary-critical argumentation.

Film run time: 124 min

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece “Persona” tells the story of a stage actress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullman) who after suffering a psychic break, seeks retreat with her nurse Anna (Bibi Anderson) at a remote beach house. Over the course of their time together, Anna’s failed attempts to understand Elisabeth eventually transform into a strange form of merger with her. Known among other things for Bergman’s haunting closeups of the human face, “Persona” explores both the thrill and the violence of representation, the allure and the danger of trying to know the Other.

A discussion about this film will be led by Pardis Dabashi. Dabashi is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she specializes in 20th-Century American Literature and Film Studies. Her research examines the intersection of affect, politics, and form in the Euro-American novel and cinema of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has additional interests in problems of method and literary-critical argumentation.

Film run time: 81 minutes

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Michael Heizer is among the greatest, and often least accessible, American artists. As one of the last living figures who launched the Land Art movement, his legacy of works that are literally and metaphorically monumental has an incalculable influence on the world of sculpture and environmental art. But his seclusion in the remote Nevada desert, as well as his notorious obduracy, have resulted in significant gaps in our critical understanding. “Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments” spans the breadth of Heizer’s career, uniquely combining fieldwork, personal narrative, and biographical research to create the first major assessment in years of this titan of American art.

Join us as William Fox, Director for the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art discusses Heizer’s work with Susanna Newbury. Newbury is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory and criticism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her first book, Speculation: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global LA will be published in September from University of Minnesota Press. Book signing to follow.

LOCATION:
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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This event is presented in partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

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Join the Reno Phil for an immersive musical experience that explores how classical music’s most revered composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, continued to pursue creating music after losing his hearing and becoming trapped in a silent world. In this interactive concert, attendees are invited to consider how the loss of a sense affects perception. A string quartet and pianist will perform works from Beethoven’s life, starting when he could hear, and throughout his journey into deafness. This program will be accompanied in its exploration by an audiologist, who will provide a scientific perspective to compliment the artistic experience. Enjoy immersive, experiential surprises along the way in this a truly unique concert celebrating the perseverance of art through adversity.

*Concert will be held in the Nightingale Sky Room. Doors open at 7 pm with cash bar. Concert at 7:30 pm. General admission seating. 

Tickets available at renophil.com.

This program is presented as part of UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation.

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.