
Cindy Sherman, United States b.1954 / Untitled 2007/08 / Colour photograph mounted on aluminium / Purchased 2011 with funds from Tim Fairfax AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art / © Cindy Sherman / View full image
Sat 12 Nov | Serious Jokes
Laughter and play permeate the history of art. In this session, explore the carnivalesque, through vibrant costumes and masks, and fascination with the grotesque, spectacle, and procession throughout art history. Consider how artists from the Renaissance to today have understood the subversive potential of laughter and challenged definitions of low and high art, invented pasts and imagined other worlds.
Guest artist Q&A: Natalya Hughes