Oct. 12, Thursday -- The public is invited to the kickoff talk for the UC Davis Department of Art and Art History's annual lecture series that features nationally renowned as well as up-and-coming artists and art critics. The series begins with a talk from Angela Dufresne, a Brooklyn-based painter of large dream-like landscapes inhabited by strange modernist structures. Dufresne is enjoying her first solo museum exhibition at UCLA's Hammer Museum. Her paintings resurrect the romantic and visionary ideals of such modernist architects as Frank Lloyd Wright or Le Corbusier. The free talk is in the University Club beginning at 4:30 p.m.