On Tuesday, December 15 at 7:00 pm, Morgan Ridler, Ph.D will offer a lecture via Zoom on “Enduring and Impermanent: A History of Mural Painting”.
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In this lecture, Dr. Ridler traces the history of mural painting from the earliest examples by our prehistoric ancestors through the contemporary period, with a particular focus on temporary or destroyed murals of the twentieth century. Murals are never forever but their ideas can live on.
Morgan Ridler is an art historian based in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Her current research focuses on Bauhaus wall painting, wallpaper, and collaborations between painter and architect.
She has published her work in academic journals and in the edited collection Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School (Bloomsbury, 2019). She teaches at The Cooper Union in N.Y. and Montclair State University in N.J.