The Red and the Black: Hilton Als on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Painterly Universe

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When:
March 17, 2020 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2020-03-17T19:30:00-07:00
2020-03-17T21:00:00-07:00
Where:
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Rothenberg Hall
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino
California 91108 United States

Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic and curator of the exhibition “The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,” gives an epistolary-form talk exploring Yiadom-Boakye’s unique subject matter: imaginary portraits of people of color. Als analyzes Yiadom-Boakye’s portraits in the context of ideas about color put forth by thinkers ranging from Goethe to Ludwig Wittgenstein. This event is held in Rothenberg Hall. Visit any admission window for directions to Rothenberg Hall for check-in at 7:15 p.m. Registration is not available day of the event. To be added to a wait list, call 626-405-3457.