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Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater

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350 James Blair Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185 United States

April 2024

Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance Architecture

April 3 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater, 350 James Blair Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185 United States
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The Muscarelle’s spring Selected Topics in Architecture lecture series will focus on the flourishing Renaissance period, when architectural innovation resulted in some of the world’s most breathtaking and magnificent structures. Director David Brashear will present Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance Architecture on April 3 in Tucker Hall Theatre. Perhaps more than in any other art form, the Italian Renaissance in architecture was rooted in a revival — a revisiting and reinterpretation of the buildings of classical antiquity. The buildings conceived by Italian artists in the 15th and 16th centuries, who were frequently pressed into architectural duty, were a collective reflection of the great…

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Voice of the Photographer: Ron Tarver

April 10 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater, 350 James Blair Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185 United States
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The spring 2024 Muscarelle Explorations lecture series will explore the art of photography and its power to tell human stories. For nearly 50 years, photographer Ron Tarver’s work has explored facets of the Black community. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist with The Philadelphia Inquirer, he produced photo essays on subjects ranging from double-dutch jump rope to the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. His exhibitions have explored Black architectural legacy and the experiences of Black Veterans, and his most recent project appropriates images his father made in the 1940s-1950s to comment on the current racial climate. His broad range of…

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May 2024

Film Screening: Exposing Muybridge

May 1 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater, 350 James Blair Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185 United States
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Ambition, betrayal, murder, deception... and the birth of moving pictures! Exposing Muybridge (2021) is the first feature documentary to bring the fantastical story of the trailblazing 19th-century photographer Edward Muybridge to life. It tells the gripping, true story of the mysterious Muybridge, whose breakthrough motion photographs set the course for the creation of cinema. Join us in Tucker Hall Theatre (Room 127A) for a screening of the film. Free and open to all. Registrants will receive a parking pass by email; street parking is also available along Richmond Rd.

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