What does Bernard van Orley’s epic 16th century tapestry The Honors have to do with Hobby Lobby, the first woman to graduate from MIT, the Texas Rose Festival, Hansel and Gretel, and methods of execution? The threads that weave them together are explained in this lecture from artist and art historian Suzanne Bocanegra. Except it’s not delivered by Bocanegra but actress Lili Taylor as Bocanegra – or rather, channeling Bocanegra. The fourth in the artist’s “starring” series and her second collaboration with Taylor after “Farmhouse / Whorehouse, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor,” the lecture is recited by the artist to the side of the stage and relayed by earpiece to the actor in an innovative, entrancing symbiosis. Add in hilarious, informative, and sometimes disturbing as descriptors, as Bocanegra/Taylor unpick the hidden history of women sewn into the tapestry. – Richard Whittaker
Jan. 31 - Feb. 1