The Denver Art Museum is following up its successful Logan lecture series last year, with a second installment of talks featuring younger and, in some cases, still-emerging international artists.
“The Logan lectures are a great opportunity to acquaint the Denver audience with some of my favorite artists, all of a younger generation,” said Christoph Heinrich, the museum’s new curator of modern and contemporary art.
“They all will be part of next year’s program, either participating in one of the exhibitions or becoming part of the permanent collection — or maybe even both.”
The museum, for example, has recently acquired a work by Shinique Smith, who is scheduled to speak on May 1. She has also been chosen to take part in “Embrace!” a 2009 exhibition in which artists are being asked to created site-specific works for the museum’s Hamilton Building.
Like last year, the lecture series is being funded by Vail art collectors, Vicki and Kent Logan. It is organized by the DAM Contemporaries, the support group for the department of modern and contemporary art.
The schedule is:
— May 1, Shinique Smith.
— May 22, Bjorn Melhus.
— June 19, Jessica Stockholder.
— Sept. 4, Dasha Shishkin.
— Sept. 18, Candice Breitz.
— Oct. 2, Daniel Richter.
— Oct. 16, Mattew Brannon.
— Nov. 20, Jonas Burgert.
All lectures take place at 7 p.m. in the Sharp Auditorium on the lower level of museum’s Hamilton Building, W. 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock Street.
Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 museum members, $12 DAM Contemporaries members and $8 students.
Reservations are recommended, because the lectures sometimes sell out. Call 720-913-0150 or visit .
