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Eight years after acclaimed filmmaker Barry Avrich first documented producer Harvey Weinstein, he returns to indict not only the now-disgraced kingmaker, but the global industry that enabled him in this #MeToo movement primer.
The ROM provides a space for difficult and sometimes challenging conversations. Our #MeToo & the Arts program includes events that discuss sexualized harassment and assault, which may bring up difficult feelings for some participants and attendees.
Note program rescheduled from September 18 to September 26.
Free. RSVP Required.
#MeToo & the Arts
Join leaders in the arts community for an in-depth panel discussion on gender and power dynamics in the context of art institutions and the role that they play in light of the larger debate concerning art and artists during the time of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
#MeToo & the Arts Programming
The ROM provides a space for difficult and sometimes challenging conversations. Our #MeToo & the Arts program schedule includes events that discuss sexualized harassment and assault, which may bring up difficult feelings for some participants and attendees.
Explore the development of the exhibition Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs with curator Mia Fineman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Annual Greek Lecture
Join Dimitrios Pandermalis, President of the Acropolis Museum in Athens, for the ROM’s annual Greek lecture. From digital reconstructions of classical sculptures, to the public integration of a 3,200 square meter archaeological excavation, Dr. Pandermalis will share the most recent programmingo pportunities at this unique museum.
Gigantic pillar-like legs. Towering necks. Massive tails. These are just a few of the biological phenomena of sauropod dinosaurs, the largest animal to have ever roamed the Earth.
Explore ordinary moments and the human character through the renowned work of street photographers.
Free. RSVP Required.
Museum admission is not included.
Join master block carver Kondra Gangadhar, dye expert Jagada Rajappa, and researcher Rajarshi Sengupta as they explore the local knowledge structures that underlie the arts of carving woodblocks, dyeing with natural sources, and weaving complex silk himroo cloth in the Deccan.
Free. RSVP Required.
ROM Admission is not included.
2018 Edward S. Rogers Lecture in Anthropology
Inspired by the true story of Viking swords in the ROM's collections, historian Douglas Hunter offers up a real-life museum detective story.
What makes an object real or fake in a museum? Conservator Laura Lipcsei explores the question raised by the in-depth study of a Zapotec urn in the ROM's collection.
Free. RSVP Required.
Museum admission is not included.
What happens when one making animal meets another? Join artist and writer Eleanor Morgan in this illustrated presentation that explores the history of the human uses of spider silk; from gun sights to sticky tunics via acoustic lures, royal underwear and the mystery of the disappearing spider goats.
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