Lowell Lecture
Gallery Talk: Is this Art? From Cave Paintings to Andy Warhol
Date & Time
May 4, 2016 at 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Dan Plekhov
Presenting Organization
Topics
We often assume that everything in a museum is a work of art, but rarely clarify what we mean by the term “art.” Join graduate student lecture Dan Plekhov on a wide ranging survey of objects in the museum collections for a discussion of how cultures through time have understood the concept of “art” and how we understand it today.