SAM Tours

Gallery Talk History in the Making: Titus Kaphar August 30, 2009 noon–12:30 pm Third Floor Galleries

Artist Titus Kaphar makes oil-on-canvas copies of European and American portrait paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and reconfigures them in strategic ways to create a dialogue about race, art and representation. This 30-minute tour examines how his work is at once beautiful and halting as he dances between fictional narrative and history as shown in the paintings in the exhibition Titus Kaphar: History in the Making.

Free with museum admission.