Free; open to McMullen Museum memberse; register for the Crash Course in Abstraction at https://tinyurl.com/rdurls4.

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To provide a wider context for the abstract paintings currently on display in the McMullen Museum’s exhibition, Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, Boston College Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art Kevin Lotery  will present an hour-long crash course in the history of global abstraction for Museum Members.

Register for the Crash Course in Abstraction at https://tinyurl.com/rdurls4.

Not a Member? Join today! Members receive numerous perks, including free admission to museums across the country, discounts on catalogues, a free annual gift, and exclusive invitations to crash courses and other events. All proceeds go to supporting exhibitions and programming for our audiences. Find out more at https://www.bc.edu/sites/artmuseum/join/.

Kevin Lotery is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art in Europe and the Americas. His research has focused on interactions between art, architecture, and forms of technological and philosophical research. Before coming to Boston College, Lotery was a lecturer in the Fine Art Department at the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer at Columbia University, and his research has been supported by grants from the Hauser & Wirth Institute, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Historical Research, University of London.