Audiences of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver and members of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia are invited to attend this special online program that explores philosophical, architectural, and aesthetic connections between these two collections. Inspired by the singular visions of both institutions’ namesakes, the conversation features Joyce Tsai, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, and Bill Perthes, Bernard C. Watson director of adult education at the Barnes. Tsai and Perthes will explore the role of stewardship and pose questions about specific works that encourage viewers to look closely, notice details, and take on new perspectives.
This talk will be livestreamed on the Barnes’s Visual Experience Platform (VXP). The VXP is a new technology developed by the Barnes that allows online participants to interact with three-dimensional images, objects, and see up-close details in works of art like never before!
This program is free, pre-registration is required, and space is limited. Registration will open soon.
About the Speakers
Joyce Tsai is the director of the Clyfford Still Museum and is an internationally acclaimed curator, scholar, and teacher. She arrived at Clyfford Still Museum from the University of Iowa, where she served as Chief Curator of the Stanley Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Art and Art History. Tsai trained as an intellectual historian and art historian — Princeton, AB (History, cum laude); Johns Hopkins University, MA (German), Ph.D. (Art History and Humanities).
William Perthes is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes. He has taught courses at the Barnes as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and West Chester and Villanova Universities. His scholarship focuses on American modernism and the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.