For those of you who ate up Bryan Hollerbach's piece about Mr. Wright:
Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Lecture on Frank Lloyd Wright's Work
The Saint Louis Art Museum will host " Frank Lloyd Wright, Organic Architecture and St. Louis, " a free lecture at 7 p.m. on April 3, 2009 in the Auditorium. Anthony Alofsin, Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial professor in architecture and professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin, will explore Wright's connections to St. Louis, including his little known ties to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Alofsin founded the PhD program in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where he continues to teach the history of architecture as well as design studios. He also maintains his own award-winning architectural firm, Anthony Alofsin, AIA, in Austin, Texas.
This lecture is cosponsored by The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. The Museum offers a full range of exhibitions and educational programming generated independently and in collaboration with local, national and international partners.
Admission to the Saint Louis Art Museum is free to all every day. For more information about the Saint Louis Art Museum, call 314.721.0072 or visit www.slam.org.
