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William J. O'Brien

May 15 – June 26, 2011

 
 
Sun, May 15, 20114:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Opening Reception and Discussion


Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
 
There will be a talk with the artist and Hamza Walker from 5:00 - 6:00 pm in Kent Hall, Room 107. (Kent Hall is located on the main quadrangle of the University of Chicago.)
 
Sun, May 29, 20112:00 pm

Gallery Walk-through

Bill Brown

Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
 
Bill Brown is the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, Department of English, Department of Visual Arts, and Committee on the History of Culture, at the University of Chicago.

This walk-through and discussion of O'Brien's exhibition will be led by Professor Bill Brown. Brown has an incredible range of scholarly interests, from popular literary genres revolving around baseball and kung fu to more rarified heights entailing close literary analysis of such figures as Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Theodore Dreiser. Over the past decade, Brown has steadily taken up what he refers to as "object relations in the expanded field," a set of concerns better known as Thing Theory. The author of numerous articles, his most recent book is A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature."

This event will take place in the gallery.
 

   
   
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