A two-part lecture series by art historian and Triton executive director Preston Metcalf starts with art and murder in Victorian England. Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer of 1888, has inspired countless theories and fictions. Of all the suspects, one of the more interesting candidates for his identity is the Victorian artist Walter Sickert. As Metcalf unfurls the evidence for this case, the audience gets to decide if Winston Churchill’s painting tutor was indeed the true Ripper. The following week, a lecture on symbols of the Halloween season dives into witches, black cats and specters of the dead.
The Real Monster of the Art World?
Thu, 7pm, $25
Triton Museum, Santa Clara
