Museum of Art

Learn more about the brilliant, witty, inventive, and cerebral artist, known internationally for six decades of The New Yorker Covers and illustrations, in this lecture by exhibition curator and Museum of Art director Dan Mills. The talk will include Steinberg’s biography, including his difficult childhood and turbulent early adulthood in Romania and Italy and moving to the US, where was celebrated for his drawings and cartoons. Mills will also discuss the multi-talented artist’s collages, drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures, and how Steinberg gave graphic definition to post World War II life, often peeling back the veneer of civilization. 

Artist Dan Mills’ primary curatorial focus is contemporary art. He is known for partnering with artists and scholars on projects that investigate a wide range of topics. His broad intellectual and aesthetic interests have shaped adventuresome international curatorial programs at several academic museums for over 25 years. Exhibitions he has curated or co-curated have travelled to over fifty institutions including Brown University, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Williams College. Mills has been a frequent guest lecturer/panelist at institutions including the Chicago Cultural Center, Wake Forest University, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and guest critic for the Herron School of Art, Stanford University, and Utah Museum of  Contemporary Art. He has invited numerous noted guest curators to present compelling projects as part of the exhibition program, and has worked with artists ranging from emerging to some of the most influential of our time. Mills exhibits his work extensively in the US, and occasionally abroad, with recent solo  exhibitions at  the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland (2019); Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham (2020); and Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art + Design, Indianapolis (2020); and an upcoming show at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston (2021).  Mills has been Director, Museum of Art, and Lecturer in the Humanities, Bates College since 2010.  dan-mills.net