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Anish Kapoor’s *Cloud Gate*: The Bean’s Reflection of City and Self – Revisit Anish Kapoor’s iconic public sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park and explore how its polished, reflective surface continuously transforms the image of the surrounding cityscape and engages visitors by offering distorted reflections of themselves, blurring the lines between art, environment, and personal experience, making it a beloved urban landmark and photo opportunity that invites interaction, play, and a new way of seeing the urban landscape and one’s place within it, becoming a symbol of the city itself.

Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate: The Bean's Reflection of City and Self – A Lecture (Welcome Slide: Image of Cloud Gate shimmering against the Chicago skyline with a small, cartoonish bean…
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Olafur Eliasson’s *The Weather Project*: A Shared Experience of Environmental Sublime – Explore how Olafur Eliasson’s immersive installation at the Tate Modern created a collective experience of awe and wonder, using light, mist, and mirrors to mimic the sensory impact of a natural phenomenon, encouraging viewers to reflect on their relationship with their environment and each other within a shared space and time, and highlighting the artist’s interest in perception, shared reality, and environmental consciousness through large-scale, experiential installations that engage multiple senses and invite collective reflection.

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project: A Shared Experience of Environmental Sublime (🔔 Ding Dong! Class is now in session. Please silence your phones and prepare to be mesmerized by the…
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Marina Abramović’s *The Artist is Present*: The Power of Gaze and Connection – Explore Marina Abramović’s groundbreaking performance at MoMA where she sat silently and invited visitors to sit opposite her, creating intense and often emotional connections through prolonged eye contact, demonstrating the profound power of presence and human connection in the context of performance art and the artist’s body as a medium for exploring shared human experiences and vulnerabilities, making the audience an active participant in the artwork and blurring the lines between performer and viewer.

Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present: The Power of Gaze and Connection (Lecture Begins: Dramatic spotlight illuminates a single chair on stage. A recording of a slow, melancholic Balkan folk…
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Louise Bourgeois’s *Maman*: The Spider as a Complex Maternal Symbol – Revisit Louise Bourgeois’s monumental bronze spider sculptures and explore how they represent the artist’s mother, evoking both protection, nurturing, and the intricate work of weaving, while also carrying connotations of fear and intimidation through its size and form, reflecting the complexities of familial bonds and emotional landscapes, and using a primal symbol to explore universal human experiences and psychological depths in her powerful and enduring sculptural work that has become an iconic representation of motherhood and its complexities.

Louise Bourgeois's Maman: The Spider as a Complex Maternal Symbol (A lecture, best enjoyed with a glass of something bubbly and a healthy dose of introspection) (🎵 Intro Music: A…
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Damien Hirst’s *The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living*: The Shark as a Statement on Mortality – Examine Damien Hirst’s infamous artwork featuring a preserved Tiger Shark and explore how this provocative piece directly confronts viewers with the idea of death and our attempts to grapple with our own mortality through art, science, and display, sparking debate and fascination about the boundaries of art and life, and the role of the artist in provoking thought and challenging perceptions of reality and existence through controversial and memorable artworks.

Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: The Shark as a Statement on Mortality (A Lecture on Art, Death, and a Very Big Fish)…