Opening Program, Human and Animal Art Worlds

Event time: 
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) See map
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Calendar Speaker/Performer: 
Richard O. Prum with James Prosek
Event description: 

Join us for a lecture on a “post-human” framework for aesthetic philosophy, color, beauty, and evolution, delivered by Richard O. Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, and Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The lecture is followed by a conversation between Prum and James Prosek, B.A. 1997, artist, writer, and naturalist. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.

Admission: 
Free
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