Join co-hosts Roo Luo and Chris Stacey for “Three Paintings and a Dinner.” Hans Belting, the German art historian wrote: "The image was the chosen medium for making good the absence of life." Focused on the theme of death, we will view one sculpture, one painting and one Zhenmushou. All of us will enjoy the communal pleasure of describing and interpreting the artwork both in the gallery and at dinner.

Club Members: Attend for free. Current Club Members.

Non-Club Members: the cost is $15.00 to attend. You receive a payment form via email after registration. Join The Club.

Date: Thursday, November 19

Time: Meet at 5:45pm on the AIC Front Steps

Location: Front Step, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60603

Cost: Admission is free for the AIC’s “Third Thursdays”

Optional Dinner: Hot Woks Cool Sushi

Theme: Death

Head of Medusa, c. 1801

Antonio Canova

Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 219

Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante’s “Inferno”, 1770–78

Henry Fuseli

Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 219

Grave Guardian Beast (Zhenmu Shou)

Warring States period (480–221 BCE)

4th or 3rd century BCE

Arts of Asia, Gallery 133