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 or pick up something from The Palette Café.
Animal Mummies
Wednesday, May 18
12:45pm
Location: Isabel Hall
It wasn’t just their pharaohs that the ancient Egyptians bundled up for the next world. 54 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick up something from The Palette...
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Scanning the Pyramids
Wednesday, May 25
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
In 2017, the ScanPyramids research team announced they had made a historic discovery – using cutting-edge, noninvasive 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. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants are encouraged...
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FIA Closed – Memorial Day
Monday, May 30
12:00am
FIA closed in observance of Memorial Day.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
Wednesday, June 1
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This program chronicles the friendship between director Sydney Pollock and the famed architect Frank Gehry. 84 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is 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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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
Wednesday, June 8
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This program focuses on Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. 78 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick...
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First Person Singular: I.M. PEI
Wednesday, June 15
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Architect I.M. Pei leads viewers through some of his more famous creations. 85 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick up something from The Palette Café...
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Philip Johnson Diary of an Eccentric Architect
Wednesday, June 22
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Philip Johnson was always on the forefront of stylistic change, and his property in New Canaan, Connecticut, is a kind of laboratory where Johnson was his own best client. 55 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants...
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Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture / Art Spaces
Wednesday, June 29
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Architect Stephen Chung deconstructs the world of architecture and explains art spaces so cool. 60 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is 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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The Art of The 19th Century
Wednesday, July 6
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This film's vast span ranges from Goya's "pinturas negras" to the light-flooded pictures of the Impressionists.Selected masterpieces of Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Historicism and Impressionism illustrate the manifold and diverse phenomena of this most extensive epoch in architecture, sculpture and painting. 50 min.
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Edouard Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
Wednesday, July 13
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Edouard Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. The full story of the painting that many believe is the beginning of modern art is revealed in this program. 60 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free...
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Renoir: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
Wednesday, July 20
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Renoir: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette. This painting was once described as the most beautiful of all the artworks of the 19th century. Certainly, it seems the happiest. But beneath Renoir's joyful portrayal of working class Parisians at leisure is another, darker story. 6...
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Degas: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
Wednesday, July 27
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Degas: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. This program reveals the story of the real woman who Degas used as a model and includes revelations about how the statue as actually made. 60 min.
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Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch
Wednesday, August 3
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch. Why should a painting of a group of part-time Amsterdam militiamen, dressed up for an occasion that wasn’t serious anyway, have become the most revered painting in Holland? 50 min.
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Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting
Wednesday, August 10
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting. Of all Vermeer’s paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. 50 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p...
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