Image: Eadweard Muybridge (English, 1830-1904). Daisy Cantering Straddled, Animal Locomotion Portfolio, Plate No. 616,1887. Collotype, 19 x 24 in. Bank of America Collection 7-31-16

Lecture on Science & Motion: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photographic Studies

Dr. David Fresko, Visiting Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, will discuss Eadweard Muybridge from 10  to 11:15 a.m. at the Bruce Museum. This lecture complements the exhibition Science In Motion: The Photographic Studies of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton and Berenice Abbott. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session. This program is free and open to the public. Image: Eadweard Muybridge (English, 1830-1904). Daisy Cantering Straddled, Animal Locomotion Portfolio, Plate No.

‘Electric Paris’ at Bruce Museum Illuminates with Impressionist & Other Works

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By KAREN SHEER

The Bruce Museum exhibit, “Electric Paris,” transports visitors to 19th-century Paris as the light shaped the works of numerous modern artists. The exhibit was meticulously curated by Margarita Karasoulas, a former Bruce Museum intern and now a Ph.D. candidate art history at the University of Delaware. She describes en plein air where a painter reproduces the actual visual conditions seen at the time of the painting. She explains, “we are presenting the exhibition into four thematic sections: Nocturnes, Lamplit Interiors, Street Light, and In and Out of the Spotlight, which examines the spectacle of artificial light in Parisian cafés, theaters, dance halls, and cabarets.”

In the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris became known as the “City Of Light” — a metaphor for its reputation as an enlightened center of reason and forward thinking. At night, however, its streets and boulevards could be dark, scary and dangerous.

John Gurche contributed Bruce Museum website 3-31-16

Artist Discusses Facial Reconstructions for Archeological Remains of Newly Found Hominid

John Gurche, paleo-artist, will discuss his facial reconstructions for the new hominid species Homo naledi, recently discovered in South Africa at a lecture Saturday, April 9, at the Bruce Museum. The “Marianne Smith Memorial Lecture” is titled “The Story of Homo naledi: From Fossil to Face”

Reception with light refreshments begins at 6:30 p.m, lecture at 7 p.m.

Free for Bruce Museum members, $15 non-members. Please register on Eventbrite.com. In 2014, National Geographic sent artist and anatomist John Gurche to South Africa to study the newly discovered fossil remains of a previously unknown species of human ancestor. The purpose of the study was to look at bony clues pertaining to what the creature looked like.