William Kloss's guest appearances

William Kloss

Talks, Symposia, and Lecture Series

Frederick Douglass

George Lucas

Inka Essenhigh

Michael Janis

Adam Gopnik

Steina Vasulka

Mary Ellen Mark

Thomas Hart Benton

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Kerry James Marshall

John Singer Sargent

William Eggleston

John Gossage

Robert Indiana

Amedeo Modigliani

OwlTail

Though presented under the title Modern American Realism, much of the art in the Sara Roby Foundation Collection struggles against the descriptive term, realism. Art historian William Kloss returns to the museum to examine the classification of this great gift of twentieth-century art. Arguing that many of the pieces confound classification, he instead coins a new term, “RobyReal,” to describe them.

Modern American Realism with art historian William Kloss