Fridays at the Gallery

Tired of TV, bored with bars, cynical about the Cineplex?

Start the weekend with Washington University’s Gallery of Art, which will host lectures, concerts, film screenings, artists’ talks and guided tours Friday evenings throughout the spring.

All events begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted (see below for complete schedule). The Gallery of Art is located in Steinberg Hall, near the intersection of Forsyth and Skinker boulevards. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays; and noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends. (The Gallery of Art is closed Mondays.) For more information, call (314) 935-5490.

Most activities are presented in conjunction with the Gallery of Art’s major spring exhibition, American Art of the 1980s: Selections From the Broad Collections, or the attendant shows Painting America in the 19th Century and American Art on Paper from the 1960s to the Present, both drawn from the university’s permanent collection.

Highlights include the three-part Friday Forum lecture series; the SoHo In Hollywood / Hollywood in SoHo: 80s Artists on Film Series: and talks by Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize-wining architect of Washington University’s planned Sam Fox Arts Center; and Alison Pearlman, author of Unpackaging Art of the 1980s.

The complete schedule is as follows:

JANUARY

Jan. 30 • Public Exhibition Tour
A tour of current exhibitions led by a Gallery of Art student
docent. Tours meet at the upper gallery information desk.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 6 • SoHo In Hollywood/Hollywood in SoHo:
80s Artists on Film Series (Episode 1)
Downtown 81 (Dir: Edo Bertoglio, 1981/2000, 75 mins)
Arena Brains (Dir: Robert Longo, 1987, 35 mins)

Feb. 13 • Friday Forum (1 of 3)
Preceded by reception at 6:30 p.m.
Sabine Eckmann, curator of the Gallery of Art, and Paul Ha,
director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, on
Recalling 1980s New York.

$10 each/$25 series of two (students $5 each/$12 series);
includes wine and appetizers. Advance reservations are
required and space is limited. Please call (314) 935-5490
or e-mail wuga@wustl.edu for more information or to
reserve your spot.

Feb. 20 • American Music of the 1980s
An evening of contemporary American music, presented by
the Gallery of Art and the Department of Music in
Arts & Sciences.

Monday, Feb. 23 • 6 p.m. Fumihiko Maki,
Maki and Associates, Japan
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki discusses
his designs for the much-anticipated Sam Fox Arts Center,
scheduled for groundbreaking on April 14, 2003.

Feb. 27 • Public Exhibition Tour
A tour of current exhibitions led by a Gallery of Art student
docent. Tours meet at the upper gallery information desk.

MARCH

March 5 • SoHo In Hollywood/Hollywood in SoHo:
80s Artists on Film Series (Episode 2)
Search and Destroy (David Salle, 1994, 91 minutes)

March 19 • Friday Forum (2 of 3)
Preceded by reception at 6:30 p.m.
Sabine Eckmann, curator of the Gallery of Art, and
David Bonetti, visual arts critic for the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, on Art and Pleasure.

$10 each/$25 series of two (students $5 each/$12 series);
includes wine and appetizers. Advance reservations are
required and space is limited. Please call (314) 935-5490
or e-mail wuga@wustl.edu for more information or to
reserve your spot.

Tuesday, March 23 • Alison Pearlman
Pearlman, a member of the faculty at the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena and author of Unpackaging
Art of the 1980s, will speak on The Usage of Style in
American Art of the 1980s.

March 26 • Public Exhibition Tour
A tour of current exhibitions led by a Gallery of Art student
docent. Tours meet at the upper gallery information desk.

APRIL

April 2 • Friday Forum (3 of 3)
Preceded by reception at 6:30 p.m.
Angela Miller, associate professor of Art History and
Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, and Andrew Walker, senior
curator at the Missouri Historical Society, on Painting
America in the 19th Century.

$10 each/$25 series (students $5 each/$12 series);
includes wine and appetizers. Advance reservations are
required and space is limited. Please call (314) 935-5490
or e-mail wuga@wustl.edu for more information or to
reserve your spot.

April 9 • SoHo In Hollywood/Hollywood in SoHo:
80s Artists on Film Series (Episode 3)
Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996, 108 mins)

Wednesday, April 14 • 4 p.m. • Sam Fox Arts Center
Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking for the new museum building and the
School of Art’s Walker Hall. Keynote address by Frank Stella.
Further details will be announced soon

April 16 • TBA

April 23 • Public Exhibition Tour
A tour of current exhibitions led by a Gallery of Art student
docent. Tours meet at the upper gallery information desk.