"Shock of the New"

Zinema 2 and The Duluth Art Institue are partnering to show Robert Hughe's series "Shock of the New" in weekly free installments, starting Saturday, February 11, at Zinema 2. Each screening will include a guest panelist who will help guide a post-screening discussion. The shows will run from February 11 through March 31. In 1980 the critic Robert Hughes came out with an eight-part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement. Its combination of insight, wit and accessibility is still widely praised.

Here's the schedule: Feb. 11, The Mechanical Paradise - Peter Spooner, curator at Tweed Museum of Art; Feb. 18, The Powers that Be - Anne Dugan, curator at Duluth Art Institute; Feb. 25, The Landscape of Pleasure - Jeff Kalstrom, drawing and painting professor at UMD; Mar. 3, Trouble in Utopia - Jim Klueg, Department Head, Art and Design, UMD; Mar. 10, The Threshold of Liberty - Atreyee Gupta, art history professor, UMD; Mar. 17, The View from the Edge - Bill Payne, dean of the School of Fine Arts, UMD; Mar. 24, Culture as Nature - Jen Dietrich, art professor, UMD; Mar. 31, The Future that Was - Ann Klefstad, art critic and local artist