Nasher curators and Quin Matthews Films travel to Isa Genzken's studio in Berlin to discuss her love for big cities, architecture, humans as sculptures, and ...

A recap of the events leading up to the 2018 Nasher Prize Award gala, honoring the 2018 Laureate, Theaster Gates.

Long-form video presenting the Meadows Museum exhibition "Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle" In creating one of his most monumental series, Spanish Golden Age master Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) was inspired by the biblical text Genesis 49, in which Jacob, Patriarch of the Israelites, gathers his twelve sons and delivers a prophetic blessing for each.

City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination A Film by Quin Mathews *CITY OF HATE: DALLAS AND THE ASSASSINATION on KERA (Channel 13), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 10 pm* When the world mourned President Kennedy fifty years ago, a different kind of grief settled on Dallas. Distraught residents could not believe such a tragedy could happen in their own town. Some outsiders labeled Dallas the “City of Hate,” blaming a hostile atmosphere for Kennedy’s murder. It was a different mood on the morning of November 22, 1963 when hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets eager to see their president. CITY OF HATE: DALLAS AND THE ASSASSINATION explores a politically turbulent city preparing for a presidential visit, the immense pride many Dallas residents felt to see the president in their hometown and the city’s damaged reputation that followed the death of President Kennedy. Unlike any other documentary on the Kennedy assassination, this story comes through the personal perspective of the filmmaker, Quin Mathews. On that November morning, a 13-year-old Quin saw the president at Love Field. Forty-five minutes later the president was shot. Quin’s personal home movies, archival television coverage and photographs follow him from the moment he waved to the president, to his family’s home with a half-staff American flag and to Dealey Plaza with hundreds of other stunned mourners. CITY OF HATE: DALLAS AND THE ASSASSINATION sheds light on an era of dark Dallas history with accounts from people who lived through it. Hear from the city’s most prominent conservative leader at the time, Congressman Bruce Alger, who earlier led a protest against Lyndon Johnson, journalist and former Mayor Wes Wise, who filmed the attack on United National ambassador Adlai Stevenson less than a month before the assassination, and from other contemporaries who recount the story of a city in pain.

The untold story of one of the preeminent industrial designers of the mid-20th century A German émigré to the US who moved to Pittsburgh in 1935, Peter Muller-Munk (1904–1967) was a brilliant silversmith, a pioneering industrial designer and educator, and a visionary spokesperson for his profession. Silver to Steel is the first retrospective of his four-decade career, and it situates Muller-Munk among the most influential designers of his generation. With more than 120 works of hand-wrought silver and popular midcentury products, supported by drawings, multimedia interviews, and period advertising, this exhibition presents the untold story of a man who rose from anonymity as a young silversmith at Tiffany & Co. to become a crucial postwar designer, promoting the practice of industrial design across the globe through one of the top design consultancies in America: Pittsburgh-based Peter Muller-Munk Associates (PMMA). The exhibition opens with Muller-Munk’s celebrated Modernist silver of the 1920s and 1930s. His best-known designs—the streamlined Normandie pitcher (1935) and the skyscraper-inspired Waring Blendor (1937)—reveal his transition from silversmith to industrial designer and herald an eye-opening presentation of his previously undocumented mass-produced objects. These highly functional and visually striking designs include cameras, radios, cocktail coolers, power tools, and refrigerators; and total environments for gas stations, international expositions, and mass-transit vehicles. PMMA’s contributions to public projects like the famous Unisphere for the 1964 World’s Fair, have been overlooked for decades. The firm counted Alcoa, Bayer, Bell & Howell, Bissell, Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh-Corning, Silex, SOHIO, Texaco, US Steel, Waring, and Westinghouse among its scores of national clients. For these and other firms Muller-Munk produced thousands of designs. Silver to Steel will reestablish Muller-Munk’s position as one of the preeminent industrial designers of the mid-20th century and provide visitors the opportunity to explore the impact of good design on everyday life. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue produced by Carnegie Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel. Silver to Steel is co-organized by Rachel Delphia, The Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, and Jewel Stern, independent scholar and curator. http://www.cmoa.org