Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/31/2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Norton Simon Museum
Category(ies)
Michael Lobel (Photo – Norton Simon Museum)
Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, will present a lecture on Van Gogh and the limits of nature.
Vincent van Gogh has become indelibly identified with depictions of the natural world, from the variegated colorations of flowers, trees, and other types of vegetation to the manifold forms of the terrain. Yet nature—both as concept and experience—was being profoundly reshaped in his time, particularly through the intense and widespread impact of industrialization.
In this lecture, Lobel draws on works by Van Gogh from the Norton Simon Museum and elsewhere to reconsider the imagery, historical circumstances, and artistic approach of one of modern art’s most iconic figures, as well as his art’s relevance to today’s threats of climate change and environmental destruction.
Free with museum admission. Doors open 30 minutes before the program. Walk-up tickets for all guests will be released one hour prior to the program’s start time. Everyone must be seated no later than 4:50 pm. The event will take place in the Norton Simon Museum’s theater.
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