Join Lily Sawyer-Kaplan, ES ’17, for a talk that traces the history of performance in early 20th century artworks on view in the special exhibition It Was a New Century: Reflections on Modern America. In this era, entertainment became accessible to a broader range of Americans, and artists such as Walt Kuhn captured the dynamics between actors’ identities, both on- and offstage. At the same time, George Bellows investigated physicality, masculinity, and spectatorship in the boxing ring, and Robert Henri captured a new wealthy class of Americans out of the Gilded Age that found new forms of leisure, reflecting a monumental shift in performance and class. Space is limited. Please meet in the Gallery lobby.