BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5dd4db197c72a14cf1cdbee1a04adc7b1655 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal DESCRIPTION:
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Yale Club of DC Event
Anni and Jose f Albers: Equal and Unequal
Nicholas Fox Weber, M.A. '71Executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation In conversation with: Barry Bergdoll
Thursday, June 17, 2021 < span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;">5:30-7:00pm This meeting will be conducted on Zoom. Instructions will be provided upon registration | |||||
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p> The conversation will explore the multifaceted aspects of Anni and Josef Albers's inspiring lives and art , from their disparate upbringing in Germany, their tenure at the inimitabl e Bauhaus, to their journey to the US at the onset of World War II, and to their eventual settlement in New Haven, Connecticut where they taught and i nfluenced Visual and textile art for decades. No one has had a better vanta ge point than Weber who met the couple in 1970, and eventually began to wor k for the Albers Foundation in 1976. Weber tells the couple’s story with au thority, bringing clarity and form to the lives of these modernist pioneers . Time will be allocated for Q&A. Cosponsored by:
About the Speakers Nicholas Fox Weber is the dir
ector of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and founder and president of
Le Korsa, a nonprofit organization devoted to medical care, education, and
the arts in isolated villages in rural Senegal. Weber is a graduate of Col
umbia College (B.A., major in Art History), Yale University (M.A., Art
History; Fellowship in American Art), and University of Groningen (PhD, 201
8). He is the author of fourteen books, including biographies of Balthus an
d Le Corbusier, and numerous exhibition catalogs. His writing has also appe
ared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Jour
nal, Le Monde, ARTnews, Town & Country, and Vogue, among other publicat
ions. He is married to the novelist Katharine Weber, has two adult daughter
s, and lives in Connecticut, Paris, and southwest Ireland. Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Prof essor of Art History and Archaeology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Columbia University. His broad interests center on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1750. Train ed in art history rather than architecture, he has an approach most closely allied with cultural history and the history and sociology of professions. He has studied questions of the politics of cultural representation in arc hitecture, the larger ideological content of nineteenth-century architectur al theory, and the changing role of both architecture as a profession and a rchitecture as a cultural product in nineteenth-century European society. I n exhibitions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and at the Museum of Modern Art, where he served as Philip Johnson Chief Curator from 2007 to 20 13, Bergdoll has offered a series of exhibitions intended to offer more inc lusive visions of subjects from Mies van der Rohe (and his relationship to garden reform and landscape), the Bauhaus, Henri Labrouste, Le Corbusier, L atin American post-war architecture, and most recently Frank Lloyd Wright.< /span> Support the Yale Club of Washington, DC The Yale Club of Washington, DC offers this event to our members and alumni. However, we do ask for your support in one or both of the following ways: 1) Please become a member if you are not one al ready. 2) Donate to the Yale Club of Washington, DC (see option on registration page). Membership dues and donations are both critical income sources for t he Club, which enable Club operations, programs, and financial viability. span>
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