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FALL/WINTER 2019 ARTVIEWS CLASSICAL SERIES POPS SERIES Brahms 2 Battle on the Big Screen Friday, September 27, 2019 • 7:30 P.M Huntsville Museum of Art FALL/WINTER 2019 ARTVIEWS CLASSICAL SERIES POPS SERIES Brahms 2 Battle On The Big Screen Friday, September 27, 2019 • 7:30 p.m. A Hollywood Tribute to Veterans 1 1 Friday, November 8, 2019 ▪ 7:30 p.m. Beethoven 9 Soul Songbook Friday, November 22, 2019 • 7:30 p.m. Shayna Steele Sings Aretha and More 2 2 Tuesday, December 31, 2019 ▪ 7:30 p.m. Gershwin and Copland The Genius of John Williams Saturday, January 25, 2020 • 7:30 p.m. America’s Movie Maestro 3 3 Saturday, February 1, 2020 • 7:30 p.m. Ravel and Trombones We Have Liftoff! Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 7:30 p.m. The Rocket City in Space 4 4 Saturday, February 29, 2020 ▪ 7:30 p.m. Four Seasons 5 Saturday, March 21, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. First Baptist Church of Huntsville CASUAL CLASSICS Poem of Ecstasy 6 Saturday, May 2, 2020 • 7:30 p.m. Dinner Concert 1 Sunday, November 17, 2019 Percussion Galore 2 Sunday, February 2, 2020 Yoga Concert 3 Sunday, March 22, 2020 The Music Gene SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW! Sunday, April 26, 2020 4 in collaboration with the SINGLE TICKETS AUGUST 1 HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology All Classical and Pops Series concerts are currently scheduled in the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall, Von Braun Center, unless otherwise 256.539.4818 • www.HSO.org noted. Dates, venues, and programming are subject to change. Museum Board of Directors Chairman: David Nast Dear Museum Members, Vice Chairman: Carole Jones Secretary: Charlie Bonner t was a September afternoon when I boarded my Treasurer: Richard Crunkleton ITWA flight at New York’s JFK airport in 1981. Dorothy Davidson Patsy Haws Virgina Rice I had recently graduated from Skidmore College, Sarah Gessler Steven Johnson Archie Tucker Saratoga Springs, NY, and was embarking on my Joyce Griffin Betsy Lowe John Wynn Ex-Officio Members new life as a graduate student in the Islamic Art and Collections: Wayne Laney Architecture Department at the American University Foundation Board President: Laurie Heard in Cairo, Egypt. My years in Egypt gave me the unique Guild President: Louann Thomson opportunity to reinforce my lifelong fascination with GALA Chair: Mem Bryant Docent Chair: Wendy Yang that part of the world. From Khartoum, where the Blue and White Nile converge, to the Mediterranean, to Foundation Board President: Laurie Heard exploring the religious and cultural sites of Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo, Petra Vice President: Trip Ferguson and Istanbul, my travels to those mesmerizing destinations enriched my mind and Secretary: Sharon Russell nurtured my soul. Anusha Alapati Cara Greco Hilary Russell Egyptology, the study of pharaonic Egypt, spanning the period c.4500 BC to John Allen Jill Heffernan Cathy Scholl Julie Andrzejewski Gary Huckaby Ina Wilson Smith 641 AD began when the scholars accompanying Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Mark Ardin Wendy Johnson Kathi Tew Egypt (1798-1801) published Description de l’Égypte (1809-28), which made source Caroline Bentley Wayne Laney Dana Town material about ancient Egypt available to Europeans. Napoleon’s invasion, though Jane Brocato Stephanie Lowe Jason Vandiver a military failure, created a fascination with the exotic world of Egypt, North Vicki Edwards Kitty Roberts Africa and the Levant. Europeans were enthralled with tales of the harems in the Emeritus: Betty Grisham Ex-Officio Members Ottoman courts, paintings of the Holy Land, and adventurers’ writings of their Collections: Wayne Laney travels across the vast Sahara Desert of North Africa. The Orient, as it was then Guild Representative: Suzy Naumann referred to, presented a perfect artistic backdrop for many European and some Museum Board: Joyce Griffin and Steve Johnson American artists who made the long, arduous journey for art’s sake. They painted Guild Officers the vibrant, colorful souks, the breathtaking sunrises over ancient monuments, President: Louann Thomson President-elect: Suzy Naumann the caravans of horses and camels carrying textiles, spices and other rare goods Secretary: Karen Naff across the remote deserts. These images were part of the artistic phenomena, of Corresponding Secretary: Sarah Pfeiffer “Orientalism.” Finance Chair: Jamie Saunders “Orientalism” is the theme of a rare exhibition Parliamentarian: Susan Alexander Treasurer: Melissa Hays that will be on loan from the Dahesh Museum of Assistant Treasurer: TBD Art in New York City, this October. The exhibition, Staff Liaison: Elena Buckley Orientalism: The Allure of the North Africa and the Near Museum Docents East, has been in the planning stages for seven years Docent Chair: Wendy Yang and this will be the first time it has traveled to the Anne Fletcher Co-Chair: southeast. It will be a rare occasion for our members Museum Staff Executive Director: Christopher J. Madkour and guest to view a show specifically focused on Executive Assistant: Elena Buckley images of North Africa and the Near East, by noted Director of Curatorial Affairs: Peter J. Baldaia 19th century artists. Special guest, curator Alia Nour, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections: from the Dahesh Museum of Art, and also an alumna Alia Nour, Curator of the David Reyes Dahesh Museum of Art Curatorial Assistant: Katherine Purves of the American University in Cairo, has conducted Director of Education/Museum Academy: extensive research in this area of focus. I am delighted that Alia accepted my Laura E. Smith invitation to be our guest speaker at the opening on Tuesday, October 29. Education Associate: Candace Bean From the exotic exhibition of “Orientalism” opening in October 29, to Museum Academy Assistant: Kathy Johnson Communications Associate: Alicia King highlights of the political world stage by award-winning PBS News Hour, Director of Development: Andrea Petroff correspondent John Yang, on November 7, the Voices of Our Times series begins Development Associate: Brianna Sieja its eighth year of bringing people of note in the arts, academia, publishing and Membership/Development Operations Associate: politics to the Huntsville Museum of Art. I wish to express my gratitude to HMA Camille Sommer Accountant: Wendy Worley member Wendy Yang, for suggesting her brother, John Yang, as a possible guest Accounting Assistants: Tonya Alexander, speaker in the series. There is no doubt that John will share great insight into the Mary Chavosky, Heather Dasher political and social dynamics unfolding on the world stage today. Director of Special Events: Jennifer Goff Facility Rental Assistants: Toni Bridges, As you read this current issue of ArtViews, I would like to say how grateful Darlene Stanford, James Shelton, Angie Story I am to the Board of Trustees, volunteers and, most importantly, the dedicated Security Supervisor: John Solari staff who have each year orchestrated a staggering number of fine exhibitions, Security Supervisor Assistant: Walker Wadell workshops, Skating in the Park, GALA, and Voices series, to name a few of our Security Guards: Joseph Barker, Rebecca Foster, Riley Patterson, Casey Traylor, Drew Watson impressive offerings. To this end, I am humbled by everyone’s generous gift of time Guest Services Supervisor: Maci Hladky and resources to raise us to greater heights. Guest Services: Emily Alcorn, Wendy Campbell, Christopher J. Madkour Victoria Gunter, Rachel Stone Museum Store Coordinator: Janell Zesinger Executive Director Volunteers: Margaret Raymond, Beth Ryan, On the cover: Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, (Swiss-Italian, 1844–1905), Campfire by the River: Donna Sietsema, Mary Withington Kiosk of Trajan at Philae, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York. 1995.20 3 Orientalism: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art October 27, 2019-January 19, 2020 | Huth, Boeing & Salmon Galleries rientalism: The Allure of North Africa travel accounts, including Lady Mary Oand the Near East – Masterworks from Wortely Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letter the Dahesh Museum of Art explores how (1763), and Victor Hugo’s Les Orientales artists from both Europe and America (1829). After 1839, photographers represented the cultures and peoples of provided increased and readily available Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa documentation for artists, scholars, and – both real and imagined – during the armchair travelers, as well as souvenirs of 19th century. famous sites. Western encounters with the Orient Drawn from the Dahesh Museum did not stop with the fall of the Roman of Art, the Mervat Zahid Cultural Empire, but, by the 19th century, the Foundation, and a private collection, Industrial Revolution had laid the Orientalism: The Allure of North Africa foundations for dynamic new levels of and the Near East – Masterworks from the political and economic engagement. Dahesh Museum of Art features over 50 Improved and recently invented forms of exceptional paintings, sculptures, and transportation created a flood of travelers lavishly illustrated books by artists from – writers, scholars and, most crucially, Europe and America, such as Hermann artists – headed for the Orient. David Solomon Corrodi, Rudolf Ernst, The Orient enchanted Romantic Ludwig Deutsch, Charles-Théodore artists who wanted to escape Europe’s Frère, Joseph Farquharson, Frederic Lord urban rigors, Realists who sought to record Leighton, Edwin Longsden Long, Émile the “authentic” Orient, and others simply Prisse d’Avennes, Owen Jones, and in search of fresh subject matter to satisfy Frederick Arthur Bridgman. the demands of a changing Western art The exhibition explores the artistic market. Some traveled to the region as legacy of Western
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