Meetup at SLAM (details):

Please join us on Friday, February 1, 2019 for the Kehinde Wiley Gallery Talk at the Saint Louis Art Museum, followed by a no-host group dinner at Basso.  Look for Nancy Reynolds holding a Harvard sign at Information desk at 5:45pm.

Description:

Simon Kelly, curator for modern and contemporary art at SLAM, will lead the 6 p.m. gallery talk on the Kehinde Wiley: St. Louis exhibition. Wiley, who painted Barak Obama's presidential portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, has created this current work, a series of 11 original, large-format portraits, as part of his visit to north St. Louis and Ferguson in 2017. The show closes Feb. 10.

The Gallery Talk, "Kehinde Wiley and the Critique of Empire," is a meet-up event at the museum. The hour-long program is open to the public, and attendance is limited based on gallery capacity. Spots cannot be reserved in advance. Lanyards for gallery talks are available at the Information Desk in Sculpture Hall before each talk, on a first-come, first-served basis. On Fridays, the lanyards are available beginning around 5:00 for the 6:00 talk. Admission to the museum is free, and on Fridays, admission to the main exhibitions are also free. If you get your lanyard at 5, there is a lot to do while you wait for the talk--including viewing the permanent collection and the wonderful "Graphic Revolution" exhibition, which will also be in its final days on view. After the gallery talk, we will gather at 7:45 p.m. in the informal and cozy restaurant Basso (next to the Cheshire Hotel at Clayton and Skinker Roads) for dinner at one of their long tables by the kitchen.

RSVP:

Please email Nancy Reynolds '89, Harvard Club of St. Louis (nanrey09@gmail.com) if you want to participate in the group dinner following the gallery talk, if you have any questions, or just to let us know you are coming.