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Each year, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) hosts innovative, contemporary exhibitions in our gallery spaces and brings an international roster of artists and scholars to campus for lectures and events. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.smfa.edu/exhibitions or call 617-369-3718.
Through November 19, “Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show”
“Disponible” brings together eight of Mexico’s most innovative contemporary artists—Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Natalia Almada, Edgardo Aragón, Marcela Armas, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Mauricio Limón, Teresa Margolles and Hector Zamora—as they critique and explore the challenges and contradictions of modern society.
October 4, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Karyn Olivier
October 11, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Jedediah Ceasar
October 12, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Jill McDermid-Hokanson + Eric Hokanson
October 13, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Angela Dufresne
October 13, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Andrew Stanbridge
October 18, 12:30 pm, Film Screening
In conjunction with “Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show,” screening of Natalia Almada’s El General, which creates a portrait of a family and a country under the shadow of the past.
October 19, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Seripop, a collaboration between artists Yannick Desranleau + Chloe Lum
October 27, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Franklin Evans
November 1, 12:30 pm, Beckwith Lecture 2011
“Gordon Matta-Clark in Italy” presented by Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History at Vassar College and a contributing editor to Artforum.
November 3, 12:30 pm, Lecture
David Kelley
November 9, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Waldemar Tatarczuk
Tatarczuk is presented by the Performance Area of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Mobius, Inc., in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.
November 17, 12:30 pm, Lecture
William Powhida
November 17, 12:30 pm, Exhibition Tour and Lecture
Carla Herrera-Prats will discuss the exhibition “The Workers” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA), co-curated by Herrera-Prats and Susan Cross. Admission to MassMOCA is required.
November 22, 12:30 pm, Lecture
Dan Peterman
December 8–11, The Museum School Art Sale
Opening reception: Dec 8, 5–8 pm. Sale hours: 10 am–8 pm
Now in its 31st year, the Museum School Art Sale is the largest and most anticipated contemporary art sale in New England. Featuring more than 4,000 works of art in all media, the celebrated Sale has become the annual destination for art collectors and enthusiasts alike to discover works from our newest students to our most acclaimed alumni.
About SMFA
Founded in 1876 and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is one of only three art schools in the country affiliated with a major museum—the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Our mission is to provide an education in the fine arts—for undergraduate and graduate artists—that is interdisciplinary and self-directed. This education values cultural, artistic and intellectual diversity; it embraces a wide range of media; it stresses the development of individual vision and its relation to culture in general; it values equally the knowledge gained by thinking and doing; it is deeply engaged with the world as a whole. If the mission is constant, its practice is always transforming.