14 August 2026

14 August 2026

The world is in turmoil–we all know that change is afoot. Summer’s delights contrast even more with a sense of loss or change. Meanwhile, art masterfully presents Summer as creative flow, desire and even adventure. But what if it was Summer itself and its illusion of creative flow that we were losing? And what if art produced, simultaneously, this illusion of creative flow but also used it as a backdrop to handle loss and climate anxiety?

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Explore ideas of Summer through art with John Cheever, the film The Swimmer by Frank Perry, with a script by Eleanor Perry, the watercolor Summer, by Agnes Martin, Martin’s return to New Mexico, a text by Vittorio Zappa, and two paintings by the late David Hockney.

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