{"id":217,"date":"2009-10-14T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsresearch.wordpress.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-10-14T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T16:54:58","slug":"alfredo-jaar-speaks-on-art-and-human-rights-october-21-at-1-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2009\/10\/14\/alfredo-jaar-speaks-on-art-and-human-rights-october-21-at-1-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Jaar Speaks on Art and Human Rights, October 21 at 1 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2009\/10\/jaarimage.jpg\" alt=\"jaarimage\" width=\"403\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2009\/10\/jaarimage.jpg 403w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2009\/10\/jaarimage-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World-renowned artist and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar will be giving a presentation about his art and career at the Dodd Research Center in <strong>Konover Auditorium at 1:00pm<\/strong> <strong>on Wednesday, October 21st<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Jaar, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award will be creating a new human rights installation in March 2010\u00a0at the Contemporary Art Galleries at the University of Connecticut.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jaar&#8217;s films and art installations explore world events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. His work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations. Subjects addressed include the holocaust in Rwanda, gold mining in Brazil, toxic pollution in Nigeria, and issues related to the border between Mexico and the United States.\u00a0 Jaar\u2019s Many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts ; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Jaar\u2019s talk is being cosponsored by the University of Connecticut\u2019s Department of Art and Art History and Human Right Institute.\u00a0 Catalogs of Jaar&#8217;s work are available at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 World-renowned artist and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar will be giving a presentation about his art and career at the Dodd Research Center in Konover Auditorium at 1:00pm on Wednesday, October 21st.\u00a0\u00a0 Jaar, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2009\/10\/14\/alfredo-jaar-speaks-on-art-and-human-rights-october-21-at-1-pm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-3v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}