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Yves Klein Blue: An Object Roundtable

Installation view featuring Yves Klein, Table bleue, designed 1961

Join the Smart Museum of Art for an interdisciplinary discussion gathered around Yves Klein’s Table bleue, on view in Conversations with the Collection: Building/Environments.

With short presentations by UChicago scholars:

Ariela Lazar
Lecturer in Philosophy 
Founder, Lazar Art Advisory LLC

Sidney Nagel
Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck Institute, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College

Steven Shevell
Eliakam Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Moderated by

Mark Hereld
Senior Fellow, Computation Institute


RSVP to aleonard@uchicago.edu. Space is limited. Students and faculty from all disciplines are welcome to participate.

Image: Installation view of Building/Environments featuring Yves Klein, Table bleue, Designed 1961, table made after 1963, IKB pigment, Plexiglas, glass, and steel legs, Collection of Robert J. Buford.