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Symposium: German and Austrian Expressionism

9:00 a.m. Coffee and Pastries | 9:30 a.m. Presentations

Saturday, 9:00 am
James S. Copley Auditorium

Top scholars will give in-depth presentations on the Expressionist movement in visual art and cinema, contextualizing the Museum's recent bequest of German and Austrian Expressionist works on view in The Human Beast.


Where did this come from? Cosmopolitanism, Influence, Community, and the origins of German Expressionism

Timothy Benson, Curator, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, LACMA

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The World Becomes Round

Cultural and Commercial Encounters between Parsis and Yankees in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries

Saturday, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Museum Boardroom

1771-1851 was a period of great social and political change that brought colonial expansion for some countries, and revolution and redefinition for others. Using the Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians) as a particular case study, Dr.

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