{"id":15493,"date":"2016-09-21T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:46:32","slug":"cassandra-langer-romaine-brooks-20th-century-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/cassandra-langer-romaine-brooks-20th-century-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Langer &#8211; Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Exhibition<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/exhibitions\/archive\/2016\/brooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Romaine Brooks<\/a><br \/>\nSmithsonian American Art Museum, USA<br \/>\nJune 17, 2016 \u2013 October 2, 2016 <\/p>\n<h2>Seminar<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2TmLbixqsc?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) &#8211; Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman, June 17, 2016. Session 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/cassandralanger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cassandra Langer<\/a>, art historian and author of &#8216;Romaine Brooks: A Life&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cassandralanger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cassandra Langer<\/a>, art historian and author of &#8216;Romaine Brooks: A Life&#8217;; Sylvia Kahan, Professor of Performing and Creative Arts, CUNY College of Staten Island; Helen Langa, Associate Professor, Art History, American University; and Virginia Mecklenburg, SAAM Chief Curator; take an in-depth look at the fascinating life and art of Romaine Brooks. They discuss the artist\u2019s social sphere, her life in Paris in the 1920s, and how through a unique aesthetic and persona, Brooks flouted conventional roles for women.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Romaine Brooks (1874-1970) was a renowned portrait painter who lived much of her life in Paris, where she had a series of open and loving relationships with women.<\/p>\n<h2>The Next Seminars<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aZstoSKhfYM\" target=\"_blank\">Session 2: Sylvia Kahan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yVTYiD9iCH8\" target=\"_blank\">Session 3: Helen Langa<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<p>Review &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/17\/489757481\/painter-romaine-brooks-challenged-conventions-in-shades-of-gray\" target=\"_blank\">Painter Romaine Brooks Challenged Conventions In Shades Of Gray<\/a> by Susan Stamberg, npr.org<br \/>\nExplore the online gallery &#8211; works by Romaine Brooks in SAAM\u2019s Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (57:12): Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) &#8211; Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman, June 17, 2016. Session 1: Cassandra Langer, art historian and author of &#8216;Romaine Brooks: A Life&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704,7,449],"tags":[429,423],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-century-artists","category-artist-talk","category-lesbian-art-herstory","tag-cassandra-langer","tag-romaine-brooks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}