The Penny Stamps Lecture Series that the School of Art & Design puts on at the Michigan Theater every Thursday during term time videotapes all its presentations and posts them for viewing on the School’s website. They run between 60 and 90 minutes in length — Here’s the link for viewing them: https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps/past — “Art” as the term is used here is not restricted to works on canvass or performance pieces. It embraces film making, jewelry design, couture, and a diverse spectrum of other things. Illustrative of this catholicity are these past lectures that might be of interest to people only passingly familiar with the field of contemporary art:
2/20/20 —
David Lang: Music and Bad Manners
1/16/20 —
11/17/19 —
10/3/19 —
9/19/19 —
3/21/19 —
1/17/19 —
11/1/18 —
Bob Kramer: At the Edge
10/11/18 —
3/29/18 —
10/12/17
Jennifer Daniel: Talk to Me
10/5/17 —
Christo: The Floating Piers and Work in Progress
9/28/17 —
Keiji Ashizawa: Community Building and DIY Design
2/11/16 —
10/15/15 —
John Luther Adams: Music and the Anthropocene
1/15/15 —
10/16/14 —
10/9/14 —
1/30/14 —
Candy Chang: Transforming Our Cities Through Art and Design
1/23/14 —
3/21/13 —
Ken Burns: Unscripted: A Conversation with Writer and Editor Daniel Okrent
