Program Calendar
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PLEASE NOTE: Many different organizations use our public spaces for their programs; this calendar lists only museum programming. If the event you seek is not listed here, please visit the web site of the sponsoring organization for more information.
Luis Martín Lecture Series in the Humanities
March 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CDT
Free – $60
This four-part lecture series (March 14, 21 & 28, April 4) documents and investigates aspects of collecting art in four periods of European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages, the early modern period, and the eighteenth century. How are great private collections created? How does the study of those collectors and collections inform our understanding of the historical contexts of art? These are themes that are connected to the exhibition “The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce,” which features masterpieces from the collection of the industrialist and former governor of Puerto Rico Luis A. Ferré (1904–2003).
FRIDAY, MARCH 14
“Who Owns the Past? Collecting Classical Antiquity”
P. Gregory Warden, Director, Custard Institute
FRIDAY, MARCH 21
“From Monasteries to Mansions: American Collectors and Spain’s Medieval Legacy”
Cristina Aldrich, Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow, Meadows Museum
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
“Into Foreign Territory: The Rediscovery of Velázquez and Early Modern Spanish Art”
Patricia Manzano Rodríguez, Curator, Meadows Museum
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
“Collecting Fragility: Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Royal Collections”
Agnieszka Anna Ficek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Custard Institute
$60 for the series; free for SMU students and members at the Goya and Individual levels and above
