A REMARKABLE JOURNEY INTO THE MIND Our last weekend of the Early Fall Seminar took us to the unique Palais Ideal du Facteur Cheval. This remarkable example of naive art/architecture was created over a 33-year period by postman Ferdinand Cheval [...]
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF IDEAS EARLY FALL SEMINAR 2018 Liz Brown and I are taking an interdisciplinary group of students from the University of Washington for an intensive seminar. Using Lyon as our laboratory, we will explore and experience this center [...]
UW EXPLORATION SEMINAR Art Historian/Curator Elizabeth Brown and I are leading a three-week seminar in Lyon, France, for the Comparative History of Ideas Program beginning August 30. Our course of study will use the city as laboratory, especially focusing on [...]
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE'S TRIUMPHS AND LAMENTS William Kentridge has created a site-specific installation along the embankment walls of the Tevere (Tiber) between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini, an 1800' expanse. The work is heroic in scale and concept and is recognizable as [...]