Object Chats: Fall/ Winter 2022

Wrightwood 659 Educators serve as conversation partners, providing points of access for our guests through their knowledge and keen observations. In these video Object Chats, our amazing staff share observations, research, and interpretation on specific objects and themes in our two new Fall/Winter 2022 exhibitions.

Explore Object Chats to learn more about The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869 – 1930 and Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage.

Fall/Winter 2022 Object Chats prepared by our Educator team focus on:

Thomas Eakins and students, swimming nude, Thomas Eakins (c. 1883), Abraham Cone

Portrait of Cécile de Volanges, Konstantin Somov (1917), Charlie Kolodziej

Sailor in White in Landscape, Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1917), Ibby Ouweleen

Lithograph XII from Hadrian and Antinous in Egypt, Paul Avril (1906), Jake Planer

Erotic Scene, Gerda Wegener, Jan Simonds

The Guest, Venice, Florence Carlyle (1913), Jen Cimmarusti

Elisàr von Kupffer, Mack Baker

Retrato de un anticuario o Retrato de Chucho Reyes y autorretrato, Roberto Montenegro (1926), Mako Puente

‘Unquiet’ painting/installation from Radiant Triage 99-A-2, Michiko Itatani (1999 – 2022), Ben Planer

Michiko Itatani’s Libraries, Rin Visaney Scholtens