Michael Matthews delivers invited lecture at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art

His presentation, titled "Sex, Death, and Posada’s Penny Press: A Skeletal Modernity,” examined the life and works of Mexican Artist José Guadalupe Posada.

A promotional flyer for “Art with an Expert” features Dr. Michael Matthews discussing Sex, Death, and Posada’s Penny Press: A Skeletal Modernity on Sunday, May 11 at 3 PM, alongside an illustration of a skeleton in a hat dancing atop skulls.Michael Matthews delivered the Art with an Expert lecture at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art.

His presentation, titled “Sex, Death, and Posada’s Penny Press: A Skeletal Modernity,” examined the life and works of Mexican Artist José Guadalupe Posada.

The presentation was part of Blanton’s major exhibit “In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships: Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi, José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez, Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse.”