Lectures

The Mirror of History: The Art of Dress in Late 18^th-century France
Echos: An Evening with Robb Kendrick
The Writer’s Studio: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Junot Díaz

The Fifth Annual Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture
The Mirror of History: The Art of Dress in Late 18th-Century France
Monday, September 8, 7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium, Free

As Louis XIV said, “Fashion is the mirror of history.” Join internationally renowned expert on the history of dress Dr. Aileen Ribeiro as she discusses the intersection of art and fashion in late 18th-century France, from the fashionable modes worn at court to the new ideas of “democratic” clothing, which heralded the modern world.

Seating is limited. For reservations call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org.

Echos: An Evening with Robb Kendrick
Presented in Partnership with the Dallas Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers
Tuesday, September 9, 7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
$25, discounts available for members and students

Robb Kendrick, award-winning photographer for National Geographic and Life, shares his experiences on the six years he spent traveling over 41,000 miles documenting modern cowboys on tintypes, a mid-19th-century photographic process that uses a piece of metal plate, coated with light-sensitive chemicals, as film.

For more information, visit asmpdallas.org or call 214-638-2767.

The Writer’s Studio: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author Junot Díaz
Presented in Partnership with The Writer’s Garret
Sunday, September 14, 2:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium

Junot Díaz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction for his debut novel, The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will give a combination reading and interview presented by The Writer’s Garret and hosted by Randy Gordon and Yolette Garcia.

Díaz has written several short stories that have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Story, and has also been included in the anthologies The Best American Short Stories and African Voices. His short story collection Drown, published in 1996, was a New York Times Notable Book, an ALA Best Book of the Year, and one of The Village Voice's 25 Best Books of the Year. Díaz has won numerous awards including the Eugene McDermott Award, the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, a U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from the NEA, and most recently the Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Call 214-828-1715 to purchase tickets.