Join FFIR Cyrus Patell and RA Shendi Xu for an outing to a lecture by acclaimed director WILLIAM KENTRIDGE tomorrow night, February 9th at 8 p.m. at Cooper Union’s Great Hall (7 E. 7th Street at Bowery).

We’ll meet in the UHall lobby at 7:30 p.m. and walk over.

Kentridge’s talk “A Universal Archive…with Some Remarks on Black Holes” will explore visual memory, the need for dis-remembering, studies in the speed of light, and other topics and themes at the edges of the artist’s work.

William Kentridge is known for his stop-motion films of charcoal drawings as well as for works in etching, collage, sculpture, and the performing arts. An exhibition of three decades of Kentridge’s works will be at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (Feb. 24-May 17) later this year, and we will be visiting the show.

In March, Kentridge will direct a production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera House. The production features Paulo Szot, who won a Tony Award last year for his performance in South Pacific at Lincoln Center. (Click here to watch a video about the Met’s production featuring an interview with Kentridge.)

WE HAVE A VERY FEW TICKETS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NOSE ON MARCH 25. Students who attend tomorrow’s lecture will have priority for this outing.

If you’re interested in joining us for the lecture tomorrow night, please click this link and fill out the form. Be sure to let us know where you’ll meet us. If you’re going directly to Cooper Union, be sure to find Shendi or me so that we know you were there.