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Think Modern: Adult and Academic Programs Audio Archive 2005

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Decadence: Redon and Fin de Siècle Poetry and Music
Saturday, December 3, 2005
2:00–4:00 p.m.

In celebration of Odilon Redon and the milieu that inspired his work, poets and actors read Decadent and Symbolist literature by Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edgar Allan Poe and others. Juilliard students perform music from the period by Ernest Chausson and Gabriel Fauré, among others. Readers include Mary Jo Bang, poet and Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Washington University, Saint Louis; Richard Howard, poet and Professor of Writing, School of the Arts, Columbia University; and Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon.

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Elizabeth Murray: Artists Panel
Monday, November 21, 2005
6:00 p.m.

Contemporary artists, including Carroll Dunham, Robert Gober, and Jessica Stockholder discuss the impact of Elizabeth Murray’s work in a panel discussion moderated by Robert Storr, organizer of the exhibition.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Murray.

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Elizabeth Murray: Gallery Talk
Monday, October 24, 2005
6:00 p.m.

Robert Storr, organizer of the exhibition and Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, leads a discussion about the exhibition in the Museum galleries, after-hours.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Murray.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Isaac Julien
Friday, November 18, 2005
6:30 p.m.

British audio-visual installation artist Isaac Julien draws from a variety of artistic and theoretical sources to create films that explore the construction of cultural identities. His films include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995); the Cannes Film Festival prize-winner Young Soul Rebels (1991); and the groundbreaking documentary Looking for Langston (1989). In 2001, Julien was short-listed for the Turner Prize (for his film The Long Road to Mazatlan, 1999), and received the prestigious MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts.

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Building on Barnes: Reflections by Contemporary Architects and Critics
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
6:00 p.m.

Edward Larrabee Barnes (1915–2004), an American architect known for his original, modern approach to designing houses, skyscrapers, museums, and educational and religious buildings, is celebrated through presentations by architects and critics who offer their perspectives on the span of his career and his designs for the UCLA Hammer Museum and Walker Art Center. Participants include Robert Campbell, Architect and Architecture Critic, The Boston Globe; Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron, Basel; Michael Maltzan, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles; Toshiko Mori, Toshiko Mori Architect, New York and Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Chair, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; and Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.

Sponsored by the Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, with the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

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Pioneering Modern Painting: A Symposium on Cézanne and Pissarro Keynote Address
Friday, September 9, 2005
6:30-8:00 p.m.

"Three Impressionist Dialogues: Pissarro/Cézanne, Pissarro/Gauguin, Pissarro/Seurat"

Presented by Richard Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Professor of Art and Aesthetics, University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts & Humanities

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro.

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Pioneering Modern Painting: A Symposium on Cézanne and Pissarro
Saturday, September 10, 2005
9:30 a.m-4:00 p.m.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro.

Technique: The Mark and the Stroke
"Touch, Movement, Motif"
Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin

"Mark and Touch, Knife or Brush: The Painting Techniques of Cézanne and Pissarro"
Anthea Callen, Professor of Visual Culture, University of Nottingham, Great Britain

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The Truth in Painting
"Poldex"
Paul Smith, Professor and Chair of History of Art, University of Warwick, Great Britain

"This Great Argument"
T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Art History, University of California at Berkeley

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The Legacy of Cézanne and Pissarro
"Collaborations in Contemporary Art"
Brett Littman, Deputy Director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and art and design critic

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Roundtable
Moderated by Joachim Pissarro, curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition.

Download MP3 file (50 min/46MB)

 

 

 

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