Writer, essayist, and frequent commentator on art for the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik explores the American passion for Impressionism sparked in part by Chicago patrons who began collecting Monet’s paintings in the 1890s.
About the Speaker
Adam Gopnik is an American writer and essayist. As a staff writer for the New Yorker for the past thirty-five years, he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, humor, book reviews, memoir, and criticism to the publication. His books include the essay collections "Paris to the Moon" and "At the Strangers’ Gate" as well as his recent publication on the moral adventure of liberalism, "A Thousand Small Sanities." He loves to come to Chicago to speak at the Art Institute and has done it often, including previous talks on Picasso in Chicago and Van Gogh in the modern imagination.
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