LECTURE AND FILM ON EDWARD HOPPER AT THE CLARK
Artist, writer, and art critic Brian O’Doherty, winner of the 2012 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, will lecture and introduce his documentary film about artist Edward Hopper on Sunday, April 28 at 2 pm (film at 3 pm) at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Both the lecture and the film are free and open to the public. O’Doherty’s lecture, “Hopper’s Windows,” offers personal insights into the life of the enigmatic artist. Hopper—a man of notoriously few words whom O’Doherty called “mysterious even to himself”—was a longtime friend of O’Doherty until the artist’s death in 1967. O’Doherty will take questions from the audience before introducing Hopper’s Silence, a documentary film he created in 1981. The film, which examines Hopper's paintings and the locations that inspired them, includes footage taken in the artist’s New York City studio as well as interviews with acquaintances. Running time is approximately 46 minutes. A man of many parts, O’Doherty’s most durable identity has been both as artist and writer. He joined the New York Times as an art critic in 1961, was the editor of Art in America from 1971 to 1974, and has published many critical essays and several books, including Object and Idea, American Masters: the Voice and the Myth; the influential Inside the White Cube: Ideologies of the Gallery Space; and Studio and Cube. He was selected last fall as the winner of the Clark’s prestigious Clark Prize, which recognizes insightful and accessible prose that advances a genuine understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.
