Timothy Morton: "This Is Hell, It's Not the End of the World" Organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air," Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation, will give a talk to celebrate the publication of their book "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia University Press, 2024), which explores the relationship between religion and ecology in response to the climate crisis.
Kahlil Robert Irving and Andrea Achi: Archaeology and Contemporary Art The artist Kahlil Robert Irving will be in conversation with Andrea Achi, Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to discuss Irving’s exhibition that includes a range of ceramic sculptures inspired, in part, by the mosaic floors of Hellenistic Antioch. Topics will also include how contemporary artists engage the history and methodologies of archaeology, uncovering layer upon layer of evidence and artifacts that begin to tell a fragmented story.
Q&A with Kahlil Robert Irving As part of the opening celebrations for "Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present," artist Kahlil Robert Irving will be in conversation with Hamza Walker, director of LAXART, an independent, nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. Irving and Walker will discuss topics ranging from Black life and collective memory to urban landscapes, as well as how the mining of contemporary artifacts begins to tell a fragmented story of American history.