Dr. Don Nakayama, Adjunct Professor of Surgery for Florida International University, will speak on Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals for the tenth annual Chang Lecture, which explores the intersection of art and medicine.

Specifically, Dr. Nakayama will discuss a small panel on the south wall of this work, The Surgery Panel, which shows a gloved surgeon’s hands in an operative field, flanked by endocrine, digestive, and reproductive organs. It is a medical analogue to the iconography of the main theme of the panel. Where the monumental panels celebrate the construc-tion of automobiles from forging steel to steel presses and final assembly, The Surgery Panel suggests the assembly of a human worker. Part of the backstory behind Rivera’s work on the mural is that of his wife, Frida Kahlo, who did some of her most personal and celebrated paintings while in Detroit at the time.

The event is free and open to the public, UM faculty, staff and students.

For more information, please contact Sandra Heskett by phone at 734-232-4943 or email at sheskett@umich.edu