Coffee WIth a Curator
April 2 @ 10:30am – 11:30am
Surrealism in Black and White
Join us for this month’s installment of our Coffee with a Curator series, where Museum staff or invited guests speak on a range of Salvador Dalí-inspired topics.
In conjunction with our special exhibition, The Subversive Eye: Surrealist and Experimental Photography from the David Raymond Collection, this month’s talk will feature Florida State University’s Art History professor Adam Jolles. Adam will explore the role of black and white photography in shaping the Surrealist movement, uncovering how this captivating medium molded a visual language that reveled in the sublime, forever altering the course of artistic expression.
Location: Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater (registration required), with overflow seating available in the Raymond James Community Room or live on YouTube (link below).
Register to attend in person at the link below. This event is free, with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry. Gallery access is not included.
To watch the live stream from home, click below at the time of the program:
Adam Jolles
Adam Jolles is associate professor in the Department of Art History at Florida State University. He is the author of The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941 (Penn State University Press, 2014). He co-curated the 2011 exhibition Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945 at The Art Institute of Chicago, and co-authored the accompanying catalogue (Yale University Press). He is currently finishing a book on photography and community in the 1960s, tentatively entitled Photography after the Great Society.
