Red
Theatre show at Theatrical Outfit and Lecture by David Brenneman, of the High Museum
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DATE:
Sunday, February 19
TIME:
Lecture begins at 1:15pm | Show starts at 2:30pm
LOCATION:
Theatrical Outfit
The Balzer Theater at Herren’s
84 Luckie Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
TICKETS:
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ABOUT THE SHOW:
Pontifical, obsessive, vain, arrogant and brilliant, modernist painter Mark Rothko turned the art world on its head with his revolutionary abstract expressionist studies in color, shape and texture. John Logan’s Red arrives in Atlanta to paint a raw and provocative portrait of an artist’s ambition and vulnerability in this electrifying play. Directed by David De Vries and starring Tom Key and Jimi Kocin.
The Tony Award winning play revolves around the series of paintings commissioned for the Four Seasons restaurant in 1958. Rothko also did a series of murals for Harvard that were completed in 1962 and installed in 1964 in the university's Holyoke Center. Their appearance was significantly altered through exposure to light, however, prompting their eventual removal in 1979. Prior to the show we will have David Brenneman of the High Museum give us a talk about the Rothko's that Harvard commissioned, destroyed, and are now in the process of restoring in a most unusual and innovative manner.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
David Brenneman, Director of Collections and Exhibitions; Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art
David Brenneman was appointed Director of Collections and Exhibitions in September 2006, in addition to his continuing role as the Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, which he assumed in 1995. He was the Managing Curator of “Louvre Atlanta,” for which he was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors, in 2008. During his tenure at the High, Brenneman has organized numerous loan exhibitions, including “Van Gogh to Mondrian: Modern Art from the Kröller-Müller Museum” (2004); “Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay” (2002); “Monet: A View from the River” (2001); “Michelangelo: Drawings and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence” (2001); “Degas and America: The Early Collectors” (2001); “Van Gogh's Starry Night: Three Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art” (2000); “Monet and Bazille: A Collaboration” (1999); “Toulouse-Lautrec: Posters and Prints from the Collection of Irene and Howard Stein” (1998); and the critically acclaimed “Salvador Dalí: the Late Work” (2010). Before coming to the High, Brenneman was Assistant Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, where he specialized in 18th- and 19th-century paintings and held a position at the Fogg Museum at Harvard. Brenneman received his Ph.D. in art history from Brown University and his B.A. in art history from the Pennsylvania State University.
ABOUT THE THEATER:
Theatrical Outfit, is Atlanta’s third oldest professional theater company, established in 1976. In the fall of 1995, Tom Key became the Executive Artistic Director and has led the organization in the 2004 move to its award-winning downtown home, the Balzer Theater at Herren’s, the first theater in the United States to achieve LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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