Saturday, April 18, 3 pm
The Brick
518 N. Western Avenue
Free

Art Historian Darby English and Hamza Walker discuss Kara Walker’s Unmanned Drone.

Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, where since 2003 he has taught modern and contemporary art and cultural studies. His books include How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (2007), 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (2016), To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror (2019), and Charles Ray: Adam and Eve (2024). To Describe a Life won the 2020 Book Prize from the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present and the College Art Association’s 2020 Frank Jewett Mather Award. English was the Louis Kahn Resident in the History of Art at the American Academy in Rome in 2024. 

This program is presented in conjunction with MONUMENTS, an exhibition co-organized and co-presented by The Brick and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA).