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SUMMARY:OLLI presents "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged"
DESCRIPTION:An online talk by Professor Hannah Wohl  \nauthor of   \nBound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged \nTuesday\, March 22\, 7 pm \nOnline via Zoom. Free and Open to All. \nClick here to register online. \n  \n\n\nWhat is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries\, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social interactions even when artists work alone. Sociologist Hannah Wohl draws on more than one hundred interviews and two years of ethnographic research in the New York contemporary art market to develop a rich sociological perspective of creativity. From inside the studio\, we see how artists experiment with new ideas and decide which works to abandon\, destroy\, put into storage\, or exhibit. Wohl then transports readers into the art world\, where we discover how artists’ understandings of their work are shaped through interactions in studio visits\, galleries\, international art fairs\, and collectors’ homes.\n \n  \nBound by Creativity reveals how artists develop conceptions of their distinctive creative visions through experimentation and social interactions. Ultimately\, we come to appreciate how judgment is integral to the creative process\, both resulting in the creation of original works while also limiting an artist’s ability to break new ground. Exploring creativity through the lens of judgment sheds new light on the production of cultural objects\, markets\, and prestige.  \n  \nHannah Wohl is a native of the Berkshires and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in sociology at Northwestern University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Her research examines judgment and decision-making in creative industries\, such as art\, literature\, technology\, and academia. Her work has been published in leading sociology journals and has won prizes from the American Sociological Association.\n \n  \n\nPre-registration is required. Click here to register online. \n\nGenerously co-sponsored by Berkshire Gas.
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SUMMARY:OLLI presents "Say it Loud!" A Conversation with Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:An Online Talk with\nHarvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy \nOn his New Book \nSay It Loud!\nOn Race\, History and Culture \nWednesday\, March 30 at 7 pm EST\nOnline via Zoom/Free and Open to All \nRSVP here to receive the Zoom link \nIn his new book\, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy addresses a broad range of the key racial and social justice issues of our time\, with essays on “The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril\,” “Isabel Wilkerson\, the Election of 2020\, and Racial Caste\,” “The Princeton Ultimatum: Anti-racism Gone Awry\,” “The Constitutional Roots of ‘Birtherism’\,” “Inequality and the Supreme Court\,” “Frederick Douglass: Everyone’s Hero\,” “Remembering Thurgood Marshall\,” “Why Clarence Thomas Ought to be Ostracized\,” “The Politics of Black Respectability\,” “Policing Racial Solidarity\,” and many others. \nIn the preface\, Professor Kennedy highlights his three sometimes-contradictory beliefs that run throughout these essays—that race continues to be a major force in America\, that there is much to be inspired by when surveying the African American journey from slavery to freedom\, and that social relations are complex and messy. Professor Kennedy writes: “I luxuriate in the messiness.  I savor the paradox and irony.  I try to share with readers my sense of surprise\, ambivalence\, and humility while seeking to understand the race line in American life.” \nProfessor Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall after attending Princeton University\, Oxford University\, and Yale Law School. He writes for scholarly and general interest publications\, and speaks regularly at venues such as The New York Historical Society.    \nProfessor Kennedy will be interviewed by Doug Mishkin\, a frequent OLLI speaker. \nFree and open to all\, but pre-registration is required.  Click here to register safely and securely online. \nGenerously co-sponsored by Berkshire Gas.
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