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    An Evening with Vik Muniz: Shapiro Celebrity Lecture

    An Evening with Vik Muniz: Shapiro Celebrity Lecture

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

    April 16, 2009

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    Vik Muniz uses unconventional materials to recreate well-known works of art or images from popular culture-rendering Caravaggio's Medusa in spaghetti, a Warhol-like Double Mona Lisa in peanut butter and jelly-then photographs these creations as what he calls "photographic delusions." He made drawings based on photographs of the Whitney Museum's galleries with dust collected by the Whitney's maintenance staff; redrew photographs of the children of sugar plantation workers in sugar on black paper. To quote New York Times critic Vicki Goldberg, "Vik Muniz's work tells us that seeing is not quite believing, that perceiving and understanding are balancing acts, that experience itself is a see-saw. . ." In December 2008, The Museum of Modern Art opens "Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz," curated by the artist from MoMAs collections. As witty in person as in his art, Muniz discusses his process and the philosophy that lies behind works that have been described as "an idea wrapped up in surprise and laughter."


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        Museum of Fine Arts Boston

        465 Huntington Ave
        Boston, MA 02115

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        Tickets: MFA members, seniors, students $28; general admission $35

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        April 16, 2009

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        6:30 - 8pm

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