Opening Day Lecture | “William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows”
Ed Schad, curator and publications manager at The Broad in Los Angeles.
Alison de Lima Greene, the Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
William Kentridge, Art in a State of Grace, Art in a State of Hope, Art in a State of Siege, 1988, silkscreen on velin d’arches cream and brown paper, printed by Malcolm Christian, Caversham Press, Lidgetton, South Africa, edition of 13, courtesy of the artist. © William Kentridge
William Kentridge, Stereoscope, 1999, 35mm film, transferred to video, The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles. © William Kentridge
June 25, 2023
William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows surveys 35 years in the career of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge. On opening day, enjoy an overview with Ed Schad, curator at The Broad in Los Angeles, where the acclaimed exhibition premiered in 2022. Alison de Lima Greene, curator at the MFAH, introduces the lecture.
Plan Your Visit
This program is included with admission. The lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building, and the exhibition is in the Beck Building. On Sundays, the Museum is open from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
About the Speaker
Ed Schad is curator and publications manager at The Broad in Los Angeles. He has curated exhibitions including Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow; Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again; and Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Couleur Additive. He served as editor in chief of 50 Artists: Highlights of The Broad Collection and managing editor of Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life, among other publications. His writing has appeared in outlets such as Art Review, Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and Los Angeles Review of Books.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
The exhibition “William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows” is organized by The Broad, Los Angeles.
In Houston, major support is provided by:
Bobbie Nau
Additional generous support is provided by:
John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation
Bettie Cartwright
JBD Foundation
Beverly and Howard Robinson
Leslie and Russ Robinson