Member Hour: In Awe of the Iron Horse

Name: Member Hour: In Awe of the Iron Horse
Start: 2025-07-11T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-11T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Taubman Museum of Art

A black-and-white photograph from 1947 of a coal train traveling through the desert. A broken down car is pictured in the foreground. — Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004), *Arizona* (detail), 1947, gelatin silver print, collection of David R. and Susan S. Goode

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Jul 11, 2025

9:00 am – 10:00 am

The July Member Hour is a special conversation in the Auditorium with Deputy Director of Exhibitions Katie Hirsch regarding the current exhibition In Awe of the Iron Horse: Trains in the Collection of David R. and Susan S. Goode and the concept of the “technological sublime”.

Trains and the railroad system represent a technological advance that changed the social, environmental, and economic landscape across the globe. The “sublime” is a beauty so incredible and incomprehensible that it provokes equal parts wonderment and anxiety.

In this Member Hour, we will explore highlights of the exhibition and how it invites visitors to view trains as objects of awe on the same level as wonders of nature, the “technological sublime.”

Reminder: Members are encouraged to bring up to two paying guests with them to each Member Hour.

Registration requested.

Members: Free
Member Guests: $10

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