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Nasher Sculpture Center Presents 360: Artists, Critics, Curators Symposium on "First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone"

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Nasher Sculpture Center will present 360: Artists, Critics, Curators Speaker Series featuring a symposium dedicated to ideas found within upcoming exhibition “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone.”

The event will be an in-depth discussion about the origins of creativity during opening weekend of the groundbreaking new exhibition curated by an artist and an anthropologist. “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone” presents prehistoric handaxes and figure stones as evidence of the earliest forms of artistic intention among our ancient ancestors.

Panelists include:

  • Tony Berlant, Artist, Exhibition Co-Curator
  • Richard Deacon, Artist
  • Naama Goren-Inbar, Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
  • Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor, Department of Archaeology at The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Exhibition Co-Curator
  • Lee Cullum, Panel Moderator

Nasher Sculpture Center will present 360: Artists, Critics, Curators Speaker Series featuring a symposium dedicated to ideas found within upcoming exhibition “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone.”

The event will be an in-depth discussion about the origins of creativity during opening weekend of the groundbreaking new exhibition curated by an artist and an anthropologist. “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone” presents prehistoric handaxes and figure stones as evidence of the earliest forms of artistic intention among our ancient ancestors.

Panelists include:

  • Tony Berlant, Artist, Exhibition Co-Curator
  • Richard Deacon, Artist
  • Naama Goren-Inbar, Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
  • Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor, Department of Archaeology at The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Exhibition Co-Curator
  • Lee Cullum, Panel Moderator

Nasher Sculpture Center will present 360: Artists, Critics, Curators Speaker Series featuring a symposium dedicated to ideas found within upcoming exhibition “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone.”

The event will be an in-depth discussion about the origins of creativity during opening weekend of the groundbreaking new exhibition curated by an artist and an anthropologist. “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone” presents prehistoric handaxes and figure stones as evidence of the earliest forms of artistic intention among our ancient ancestors.

Panelists include:

  • Tony Berlant, Artist, Exhibition Co-Curator
  • Richard Deacon, Artist
  • Naama Goren-Inbar, Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
  • Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor, Department of Archaeology at The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Exhibition Co-Curator
  • Lee Cullum, Panel Moderator

WHEN

WHERE

Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora St.
Dallas, TX 75201
http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/

TICKET INFO

Admission is free.
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