Museum lecturers, educators, graduate students, and occasionally curators lead talks in the collection and special exhibitions daily at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Audiences learn about the historical context and significance of modern and contemporary artworks through a process of looking and exchanging ideas with a lecturer.

In a panel discussion moderated by Roxana Marcoci, curator of the exhibition, artists Polly Apfelbaum, Inka Essenhigh, and Gary Simmons address the creative misalliance between abstraction and comic forms of representation in their work. The panel probes issues pertaining to humor in relation to a critical interpretation of war and global conflicts as well as gender and ethnic stereotyping.

In conjunction with the exhibition Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making

Sign language interpreted gallery talks are held every fourth Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. FM headsets for sound amplification are available for all talks. Lectures are free with Museum admission. Groups are limited to twenty-five. Group stickers are distributed ten minutes prior to each Gallery Talk.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk and the Film desk, or online at www.ticketweb.com.