Curator in Your Computer

We begin our series on an enlightening journey through one of the most revolutionary periods in Flemish art history with Lloyd DeWitt, PhD, Chief Curator and Irene Leache Curator of European Art. Using the Chrysler collection as a guide, explore the tremendous change, turmoil, and progress of Flemish art in the 1500s and 1600s as presented by artists Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens, and David Teniers the Younger. Sign up

Step into the shoes of an archaeologist and explore how researchers discover and analyze the physical remains of the ancient and medieval worlds. We will closely look at glass fragments excavated from a Roman fort, a Jewish synagogue, and a medieval shipwreck. Sign up

With her academic focus on contemporary African diasporan arts, Gant will discuss several pieces by major international artists, including Wangechi Mutu, William Kentridge, and Elias Sime. Discover how their images enhance the traditional collection of African Art and expand the very definition of contemporary art. Sign up

Corey Piper, PhD, Brock Curator of American Art takes us on an exploration of the intersections of taxidermy and art, from the invention of the modern methods of preserving animals in the eighteenth century by American portraitist Charles Willson Peale to contemporary artists who have incorporated taxidermied creatures as a means of probing humans’ relationship to the natural world. Sign up

Join Deputy Director for Art & Interpretation and Curator of Photography Seth Feman, PhD to explore the Chrysler’s photography collection through the lens of photographic media in our final installment of the Curator in Your Computer series. Sign up