Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room
Lecture: The History of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT, United StatesCurator Niamh O’Sullivan joins us from Dublin to recount the development of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. The museum formed part of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT before its closure in 2022, and will reopen in a new space in Fairfield, CT in the future. About the Exhibition: This exhibition presents highlights from […]
Lecture: Rare & Everywhere: Making & Selling Prints in the Age of Rembrandt
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT, United StatesJoin us on Tuesday, November 19 at 5 p.m. for a lecture by Nadine Orenstein, PhD., Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Rare and Everywhere: Making & Selling Prints in the Age of Rembrandt." One of the most creative and inventive etchers of his day, […]
Lecture: Inside the Head of a Collector
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT, United StatesOn Tuesday, October 22 at 5 p.m., Shirley M. Mueller, MD will present a lecture in the Barone Campus Center’s Dogwood Room. An internationally known collector and scholar of Chinese export porcelain, Dr. Mueller is also board-certified in Neurology and Psychiatry. This unique conjunction of interests led her to explore the “neuroeconomics” of collecting in […]
Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT, United StatesThe Antikythera Mechanism, often described as the oldest analogue “computer,” was a device dating to the 2nd BCE used for astronomical calculations, including predicting eclipses. Pieces of the bronze device and its wooden case were first discovered in 1901 off the Greek island of Antikythera, from which it takes its name. The pieces are today […]
Lecture: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT, United StatesJoin us for this special talk by FBI Special Agent Geoff Kelly, head of the FBI’s Art Crime taskforce, which has continued to investigate the 1990 theft of 13 artworks valued at over $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Agent Kelly will present his talk in the Barone Campus Center's Dogwood […]