This Week at CHAT

CHAT is very pleased to announce the acquisition of six large oil paintings by American painter Ben Wilson, thanks to the generosity of the Ben and Evelyn Wilson Foundation. These remarkable works will be installed in the CHAT lounge over the winter break.
To mark to occasion, CHAT will sponsor a reception and unveiling on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Please join us on the 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall for the official unveiling of six paintings donated to the Center for the Humanities at Temple.

Special Guest:
Jack Spector, Professor of Art History, Rutgers University will give a presentation on Wilson's life and art.

A specialist in 19th and 20th-century European art, Prof. Spector recently completed a series of studies on Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q., linking it to fin-de-siècle Symbolism. His previous publications include Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919 to 1939, The Gold of Time, and The Aesthetics of Freud, which has been reprinted and translated into many languages. For information, contact: chat@temple.edu.

(This week’s image: a detail from “The Thresher,” c. 1975.)

What is Modern About the Ancient Art of Iraq?

On March 21, 2007, at 3:30 on the 10th Floor of Gladfelter Hall, CHAT will present Maureen Drdak: EX VOTO, a lecture provocative in form, contexts, and intellectual richness. A reception will follow.

An exhibit of two of Ms. Drkak's major works, The Killing of Lions, a War Meditation, and The Akedah Triptychwill run in the CHAT Art Gallery from March 21 through April 27.
For more information click on Maureen Drdak EX VOTO
EX VOTO flyer

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October 1 - December 1, 2005

Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography
This exhibit will include forty-five photographs depicting Depression-era religious practices through the lens of some of America 's most well-known photographers including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. The exhibit will also include the works of equally talented but lesser-known photographers such as John Collier, Jr., Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, and Marjory Collins. Explanatory materials setting the photographs in their historical, artistic, and religious context will accompany the photographs. A series of lectures by Professor Colleen McDannell, Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religion at the University of Utah , is planned in connection with the exhibition. These activities are sponsored cooperatively by the Center for the Humanities and the Departments of English, American Studies, and Religion.

The Center for the Humanities Art Gallery, on the 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, is open to the public free of charge. The Gallery features exhibits on a rotating basis. If you are interesting in proposing a show for the Gallery, please contact Richard Immerman.