Art á la Carte | Free Video Series
Join us every Wednesday at 12:15p for a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch of pick up something from The Palette café. Coffee, tea, and cookies are provided. All programs are held in the FIA’s Isabel Hall.
Secrets of the Dead: Leonardo the Man Who Saved Science
Wednesday, April 1
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks—some even 1700 years before him. 60 min.
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Understanding Art: Baroque and Rococo, Part 1
Wednesday, April 8
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
As the Reformation rocks the Catholic Church in Italy, Caravaggio keeps the faith by bringing biblical scenes to life in vivid, dramatic canvases. Architects Bernini and Borromini design cathedrals with sensual curves and playful geometric patterns. In Naples, art turns deadly as painters ruthlessly defend their turf. 62 min.
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Understanding Art: Baroque and Rococo, Part 2
Wednesday, April 15
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Spanish painter Velázquez renders an incestuous royal family in grotesque glory, while Zurbarán paints the fervent ecstasy of martyrs and monks. In Holland, Vermeer and Rembrandt break new ground with intimate portraits of locals at work and play, while Rubens pursues voluptuous passions in Belgium. 62 min.
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A Model for Matisse
Wednesday, April 22
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Monique Bourgeois was a 21-year-old nursing student and amateur artist living in Nice when, in 1941, she answered an ad placed by Henri Matisse seeking “a young and pretty night nurse.” 67 min.
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Loving Vincent
Wednesday, April 29
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. 95 min.
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Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb
Wednesday, May 6
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Join Dr. Kathleen Martinez, criminal lawyer turned maverick archaeologist, as she searches for Cleopatra’s lost tomb.60 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. Offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p, participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick up something from...
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Nova: Animal Mummies
Wednesday, May 13
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
It wasn’t just their pharaohs that ancient Egyptians bundled up for the next world. 54 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. Offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p, participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick up something from The...
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Secrets of the Dead: Scanning the Pyramids
Wednesday, May 20
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
In November 2017, the ScanPyramids research team announced they had made a historic discovery—using cutting-edge, non-invasive technology, they discovered several new cavities within the Great Pyramid. 60 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. Offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p...
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Time Scanners: Egyptian Pyramids
Wednesday, May 27
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Follow world famous structural engineer Steve Burrows as he and the Time Scanners team travel to Egypt to scan the pyramids, the tombs of the mighty pharaohs. 60 min.
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