ZOOM CLASSES
ZOOM DIALOGUES BETWEEN
CYNTHIA NACHMANI AND JANE ROYAL
"THREE/SIX/NINE"
Zoom lectures are not "old," they still offer a platform and structure for thematic investigations into art across countries and centuries. This academic year sign up for three, six or nine lectures (one a month) from a list with titles that interrogate small questions, one artist, or one theme.
"Caspar David Friedrich: Man and Nature"
“Paris 1874 Inventing impressionism”
"The Ceiling and the Wall: breaking boundaries in 18th century Italy and France”
"Women with swords: Judith, Salome, and Others”
"A Brief History of the Venice Biennale”
"Snapshot: A Face in the Crowd"
"Snapshot:The Land"
"Representing America: Jeffrey Gibson and Wendy Red Star"
"A Far Away Land: The American West”
On Zoom • SEPTEMBER through June (NO LECTURE IN OCTOBER)
3rd Thursday of each month • 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Three classes $500 • Six classes $1000 • Nine classes $1500
NOW AND THEN:
CINEMA'S GREATEST FILMS
Every ten years the British Film Industry through its periodical "Sight and Sound" publishes a new rating of the top 100 movies ever produced, having canvassed 2,000 film critics, historians, curators and technicians for their votes. This most academic of institutions published its last list in Spring 2023. In this course we shall look at and discuss nine out of the one hundred films and talk about their reception over time: what the critique was about them at first screening, and the evolution or stasis of that critique over time. Some of the titles include Bergman's "Persona" 1966; Ozu's "Tokyo Story" 1953; Pontecorvo's "Battle of Algiers" 1963; Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" 1954; Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7" 1962; Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" 1968; Dreyer's "The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc" 1928; Godard's "Contempt" 1963; and Max Ophuls's "The Earrings of Madame de..." 1953.
On Zoom • September though June (no lecture in October)
2nd Monday of each month • 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM • $1200