Lessons of the Hour Gallery Talk
- Cost
- Free | Registration encouraged
- Event Location
- Meet in F Street Lobby
- Categories
- After Five
- Gallery Talks & Tours
- Part of series
Join Curators Saisha Grayson and Charlotte Ickes for a gallery talk about Isaac Julien’s tour de force Lessons of the Hour, jointly acquired for the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The film installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.
Image and Credit: Installation view, Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, September 24– December 15, 2019. © Isaac Julien, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. Image Courtesy of SCAD
Image and Credit: Installation view, Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, September 24– December 15, 2019. © Isaac Julien, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. Image Courtesy of SCAD
Exhibitions
December 8, 2023–December 6, 2026
A presentation of Isaac Julien’s tour de force moving image installation that interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.