Museum Nights features Harn Eminent Scholar lecture, creative writing faculty readings

September 21, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art welcomes internally recognized scholar Ute Meta Bauer as part of the first Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History lecture of the fall semester at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27. Visitors will also enjoy readings of new fiction by Jill Ciment, David Leavitt, Padgett Powell and Mary Robison, distinguished authors and faculty members from University of Florida’s creative writing program. Refreshments will be available and the galleries will remain open until 9 p.m.

Ute Meta Bauer is associate professor and director of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her lecture, “Architectures of Discourse – The Potential and Problematic of Curated Exhibitions,” will address the extraordinary and global evolution in curatorial practice over the last decade. Bauer’s curatorial work has focused on art, architecture and sound as it is linked to feminist and socio-political discourses. Bauer was artistic director of the Third Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, a broad international spectrum of visual, urban, cinematic, performative and sonic stagings, that took place over the course of two months. She also co-curated the internationally acclaimed “Documenta 11,” on the team of Artistic Director Okwui Enwezor. Most recently she was nominated as a member of the International Committee of the Third Yokohama Triennale for 2008.

The Harn Eminent Scholar Lecture Series is organized by the School of Art and Art History through the Harn Eminent Scholar Endowment and co-sponsored by the Harn Museum of Art.

The mission of UF Student Government-sponsored Museum Nights is to makeavailable the rich artistic, scientific and cultural heritage of the Harn Museum of Art and Florida Museum of Natural History at the UF Cultural Plaza. Dedicated to education and enhancing the visitor experience, Museum Nights provides programming to increase awareness and appreciation of the arts and natural sciences.

Admission to the Harn Museum is free. For more information visit www.harn.ufl.edu or call 352-392-9826.