Author Natalie Dykstra will discuss her recent book, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a biography of the Boston art collector and museum founder. This event is co-hosted by the Columbus Museum of Art. This event is free, but registration is required. Follow this link to register.
A biographer relies on all kinds of evidence to reconstruct a life story: letters, diaries, financial and household documents, manuscripts, sketchbooks, photograph albums, and published material of all sorts. Even so, there are always gaps or silences in the record for a variety of reasons: the subject wanted to hide from history; the record was lost or destroyed; the evidence that remains is in some way illegible or resistant to reading. This resistant evidence is the subject of this talk, which asks what happens when a subject’s expressiveness is not with words either spoken or on the page, but with images or objects—or even with a collection. Can images or objects be as eloquent as words?
Come early for lunch! The cafe and giftshop will be open and the hallway galleries adjacent to the auditorium are free to view.
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This event is free and open to the public, but access to the main art galleries and temporary exhibitions will require a paid admission at the museum front desk. This event is co-hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Columbus Museum of Art. For accommodation requests, email Megan Moriarty.
Parking
There is a $7 fee to park in the lot adjacent to the museum. Your parking can be validated if you spend $7 in the café or the giftshop. Free parking is available in an additional lot on the corner of Long Street and Washington Avenue- please refer to this map to see the layout of parking lots. Metered parking is available on the street. Do not park in the State Farm lots directly across Washington Avenue- you will be towed during business hours.
