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Programs and Tours
April 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961–2005
Thursday, April 24, 7 pm
Sunday, April 27, 2 pm
Lecture
Russian Caricatures of Tsar Nicholas II and the 1905 Revolution: Coded Messages
Tuesday, April 1, 7 pm
Library Gallery, UM Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor
Margaret Betz, Professor of History at the Savannah School of Art and Design, will give an illustrated lecture relating to the exhibition Caricature and the 1905 Russian Revolution, on display April 1–18 in Room 100 at the UM Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.
The exhibition includes numerous books and caricatures focused on the 1905 Russian Revolution. The popular revolt featured massive, nation-wide demands for political reform and liberty in Russia, then governed by an absolute monarchy, and was ultimately brutally suppressed. During the course of the revolution hundreds of caricature journals emerged, often with extraordinary graphics, as tsarist censorship controls broke down. The 1905 Russian events also attracted the attention of caricaturists throughout Europe and left behind a legacy of powerful illustrations. The exhibition's curator, Robert Justin Goldstein, emeritus professor of political science at Oakland University and Research Associate at the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies will also give a lecture exploring political caricature and political censorship in Europe between 1815 and 1914 on Wednesday, April 2 at 3 pm, also in the Harlan Hatcher Library Gallery.
Dr. Betz's lecture is cosponsored by UMMA, the UM Institute for the Humanities, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the Departments of History of Art and History, the International Institute, and the Center for International and Comparative Studies.
Artist’s Talk
William Christenberry
Sunday, April 6, 3 pm
Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
Please join us for a very special opportunity to hear artist William Christenberry share stories about his work and life in the American South in conjunction with his photographic retrospective at UMMA Off/Site. An acclaimed artist in many media including drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, Christenberry is best known for his color photography. Although Christenberry has used a variety of methods to make photographs including large-format and Brownie cameras, he has been widely praised for a remarkable constancy of vision across a half-century of work. A recent monograph on Christenberry published in conjunction with this exhibition and a recent one at the Smithsonian states, “although the focus of his work is on the American South, the underlying themes with which Christenberry has unsentimentally grappled—time, memory, loss—are of universal significance.” Through his teaching at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, as well as his work as an artist, Christenberry has also helped to shape successive generations of American artists. His work is held by many leading museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
 This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
May-June 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961–2005
Sundays, May 4, 11, 25, and June 1, 2 pm
Thursday, May 22, 7 pm
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