Winter Talks

Join us for the inaugural season of Winter Talks, a lecture series with distinguished speakers pushing forward critical discourse. Building on the success of recent high-profile presentations at the museum, including Silvia Federici and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, these evenings invite the public into intimate conversations on cultural issues that are urgent for artists, scholars, and cultural workers. Invited speakers share material in development that bridges art, culture, technology, and economics. These in-person events are free with RSVP.

On January 23, theorist and critic Malcolm Harris delivers a lecture on social movements necessary to avert climate disaster. Drawing on material put forth in his upcoming book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, Harris navigates histories of capital within visual art, tech, and environmental discourse. He is the bestselling author of books including Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (Little, Brown and Company, 2023), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials (Little, Brown and Company, 2023); and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History (Melville House, 2020). As a journalist and critic, Harris offers materialist analysis that challenges prevailing narratives about the cultural development of the United States, advancing Marxist readings of labor geographies within a global economic context.

The presentation runs approximately 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.