Glenn Brown in Conversation with Jeff Fleming

Join artist Glenn Brown and Des Moines Art Center Director Jeff Fleming for a conversation about the artist's work featured in the upcoming exhibition, Glenn Brown. This will be the first, one-person museum exhibition of the artist's work in the United States.

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2016 Fingerman Lecture: Maya Lin

Between Art and Architecture Welcome to the live blog for the Des Moines Art Center's 2016 Fingerman Lecture featuring Maya Lin! Ms. Lin is the 27th in the series made possible through generous gifts by Louis and Lois Fingerman. Throughout her career, Ms. Lin has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture, creating a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works, and memorials.

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Laurel Nakadate in Conversation with Rick Moody

Author Rick Moody leads artist Laurel Nakadate (his spouse) in a conversation that not only traverses her process, but will delve into the psychological aspects of expanding identity through science and pictorial storytelling. This lecture is related programming for the exhibition, Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations

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Art Well Traveled

How Our Artworks Enhance Exhibitions Around the World In recognition of Art Museum Day, an international initiative to highlight the value of museums in society, the Art Center is offering a lecture about how our collection contributes to exhibitions nationally and abroad. Associate Curator Laura Burkhalter will chronicle how the loan request process works and why some requests are granted and others declined.

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Behind-the-scenes of Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - present

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston's Senior Curator Jenelle Porter comes to the Des Moines Art Center to share her insight on the curation of the exhibition, Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - present. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, May 9.

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Nick Cave in Conversation with Gilbert Vicario

Nick Cave is an artist, educator, and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance. On Thursday, April 11, 2015, he joins Senior Curator Gilbert Vicario at the Des Moines Art Center for a conversation about his work—featured in the exhibition Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa—and how it is shaped by contemporary America.

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