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Experimental Magazines and the International
Avant-Gardes, 1945–75
Monday, December 11, 2006
6:00 p.m.
This panel considers various aspects of the avant-garde
magazine. Examining experimental journals that
were conceived as ongoing platforms for new works of art,
graphic experimentation, and simultaneous expression
in the arts, literature, philosophy, politics, and other
fields, participants discuss the ways in which magazines
represented the ideas of particular artistic and intellectual
communities, even as they responded to and disseminated
ideas internationally.
With Liza Bear, former editor and co-founder with Willoughby
Sharp of Avalanche magazine (1970–76); Benjamin
Buchloh, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of
Modern Art, Harvard University and former editor of Interfunktionen
(1968–75); Edward Sullivan, Dean for the Humanities and
Professor of Fine Arts, New York University; and Willoughby
Sharp, independent curator, artist, and former publisher
and co-founder of Avalanche. Moderated by David
Little, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum
of Modern Art.
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Modern Danish Design Revisited
Thursday, December 7, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Professor Penny Sparke, Dean of the Faculty
of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University, London, delivers
a lecture investigating contemporary design within the legacy
of modern design in Denmark today. A panel discussion, moderated
by Laetitia Wolff, writer, curator, and founding director
of futureflair, inc., follows the lecture and includes designer
Christina Strand and Anders Byriel, director of the textile
manufacturing company Kvadrat.
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Place and Light: From New York to China and the
Mediterranean
Monday, December 4, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Critics and scholars discuss the influence
of geography and culture on Brice Marden’s work through
individual presentations and a discussion moderated by Gary
Garrels.
“The New York School”
Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The
University of Texas at Austin
“China and the East”
John Yau, poet and author of Paradiso Diaspora
(2006), Ing Grish (2005), Borrowed Love Poems
(2002), and Brice Marden: Drawings and Paintings 1964–2002
(2003), among many others.
“The Mediterranean, the Classical, and the Renaissance”
Jean-Pierre Criqui, art historian, critic, and editor of
Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne
of the Centre Pompidou
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Brice
Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings.
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Modern Poets: Frank O'Hara at MoMA
Thursday, November 30, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Frank O'Hara worked at The Museum of Modern Art on and
off for fifteen years—first selling postcards, then curating
exhibitions and writing catalogue copy—all while composing
poems during his lunch hour. This program features poets
John Ashbery and Bill Berkson, artist Alfred Leslie, and
Museum Archivist Michelle Elligott as they share their memories
of O'Hara and his love for poetry and art during his time
at MoMA.
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The Art of Engagement
Thursday, November 21, 2006
6:30 p.m.
How does the museum context shape audiences' engagement
with artworks? What are the expectations placed on the museum
experience? What lessons can be gleaned from recent audience
studies? This roundtable considers art, the audience,
and the museum context. Special attention is given
to the challenges of teaching with contemporary art objects
in a museum.
Program participants include: James Elkins,
the E.C. Chadbourne Chair of the Department of Art History,
Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago; Bonnie Pitman, Deputy Director for Education
at the Dallas Museum of Art; and Howard Gardner, the John
H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Moderated by Wendy Woon, Edward John
Noble Foundation Deputy Director of Education at The Museum
of Modern Art.
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry and Wendy Woon
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Presentation by James Elkins
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Presentation by Bonnie Pittman
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Presentation by Howard Gardner
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An Artists Panel: Brice
Marden
Monday, November 13, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Artists Francesco Clemente, Luc Tuymans,
and Christopher Wool discuss the impact of Brice Marden's
work through individual presentations and a conversation
moderated by Gary Garrels. Held in conjunction with the
exhibition Brice
Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings.
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Conversations with Contemporary Artists:
Trisha Donnelly
Friday, November 10, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Trisha Donnelly's photographs, drawings, and video, sound,
and performance art challenge viewers to consider the meaning
of signs, logic, and narrative. Through gestures, expressions,
and the passage of time, she cryptically reveals imaginary
languages and belief systems that alter viewers' perceptions
of images and environments. Donnelly received a BFA from
UCLA and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been
seen most recently in the 2003 Venice Biennale and the Carnegie
International in 2004.
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Manet at MoMA: A Conversation
between John Elderfield and Michael Fried
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
6:30 p.m.
John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée
and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture,
The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition
Manet
and the Execution of Maximilian, and Michael Fried,
the J.R. Herbert Boone Professor in the Humanities, Krieger
School of Arts and Science, The Johns Hopkins University,
and author of the critically acclaimed Manet's Modernism:
or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s, discuss the
Maximilian paintings and Manet's importance to the history
of modern art.
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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art
with Glenn D. Lowry
The Spectacle of Contemporary Perception
Monday, November 6, 2006
5:30 p.m.
Doug Aitken and Olafur Eliasson discuss
the creation of large-scale site installation and changes
in perception within the society of spectacle.
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry:
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Presentation by Olafur Eliasson:
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Presentation by Doug Aitken:
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Conversation:
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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Barry Whitmill of Freeplay Energy
Friday, November 3, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Based in South Africa, industrial designer Barry Whitmill
of Freeplay Energy seeks freedom from traditional energy
sources. The organization's Self-Sufficient Energy technology
combines wind-up, solar, and rechargeable power in unique
and portable consumer electronic products. Freeplay makes
products such as Lifeline Radio—simultaneously a functional
appliance and a means to communicate with, educate, and
empower people in the harsh conditions of Third World countries.
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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art with Glenn
D. Lowry
Artists among Nations
Thursday, November 2, 2006
6:30 p.m.
In a conversation moderated by Glenn D.
Lowry, artists Ghada Amer and Alfredo Jaar discuss the role
in contemporary culture of the artist as an international
nomad and the problem of locating new work within current
artistic categories.
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Plane Image: A Conversation
with Brice Marden
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Brice Marden and Gary Garrels, curator
of Brice
Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings,
discuss the artist's work and the exhibition.
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Artists Speak: Conversations
on Contemporary Art with Glenn D. Lowry
Performing History: Critical Autobiographies
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
6:30 p.m.
An-My Lê and Allison Smith discuss the role of history in their work. Inspired by personal histories, historical reenactments, war, and performance, these artists confront the present by investigating constructions of the past.
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Related Resource: ArtRadio
WPS1 Historic Audio Archive
The Museum of
Modern Art's Conversation with Contemporary Artists Series,
featuring photographer An-My Lê, was recorded at The
Museum of Modern Art in New York by ArtRadio WPS1 on May
6, 2005. An-My Lê discusses her signature large-format
landscape work and re-created war scenes and how her childhood
in Vietnam informed these powerful and profound images.
Susan Kismaric, Curator in the Department of Photography
at the Museum, introduces the artist.
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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Yuri Masnyj
Friday, October 13, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Yuri Masnyj's sculptures and works on
paper meticulously investigate form and color, juxtaposing
figuration and abstraction. Masnyj appropriates material
from everyday life, art history, and contemproary culture,
transforming it through fragmentation, line, gesture, and
structure. He is a graduate of The Cooper Union and has
exhibited internationally and in New York, most recently
in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and P.S.1's Greater New
York 2005.
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A Conversation with Jacques Herzog and Glenn D. Lowry
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
6:30 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained, Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art, and Jacques Herzog consider the collection from an architect’s perspective and discuss the ways in which thoughtful selections and innovative installations inspire new understandings of art.
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Atlas: Art beyond Art History
Friday, September 15, 2006
6:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Transforming
Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, this panel
discussion seeks to uncover meanings within and relationships
among works of art that are not usually considered in traditional
studies of art history. The program consists of brief presentations
and a conversation moderated by Luis Pérez-Oramas,
curator of the exhibition. Participants include Philippe-Alain
Michaud, Film Curator, Musée national d’art
moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; John Rajchman,
Associate Professor and Director of MA Programs, 20th Century
Art and Philosophy, Columbia University; and Michel Weemans,
Professor, L’École Nationale Supérieure
d’Art de Bourges, Paris.
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Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition
with Melvin Gibbs, Mary Halvorson, Lee Ranaldo, Vernon Reid, and Elliott Sharp
Musical director: Elliott Sharp
September 13, 2006
6:30 p.m.
The Museum of Modern Art presents Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition, a performance of Christian Marclay's musical score Graffiti Composition. In 1996 the artist plastered more than 5,000 blank musical notation sheets in public places throughout Berlin during a month-long sound festival, thus randomly enabling the
public to fill them freely with musical notations, scribblings, or anything else. Marclay photographed the graffitied sheets, selected 150 from the group, and compiled them into a portfolio that is meant to be used by musicians to perform. Graffiti Composition has been interpreted by a variety of musical ensembles in the last few years, including at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2001, the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans in 2002, and the
Barbican Centre, London, in 2005. For this one-time performance, composer/producer/sound artist Elliott Sharp leads a musical ensemble comprising five renowned guitar players-Melvin Gibbs, Mary Halvorson, Lee Ranaldo, Vernon Reid, and Sharp-who will interpret the musical score.
The performance is offered in conjunction with Out of
Time: A Contemporary View.
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Representing Dada
Saturday, September 9, 2006
To mark the close of the international Dada exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA hosted a day-long symposium to consider issues involved in representing Dada through texts, images, and objects, with a particular focus on the semantics of display. A distinguished group of scholars discussed landmark Dada exhibitions and past publications, with the aim of addressing how Dada has been defined historically, geographically, and conceptually.
Introduction
John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Does Dada Dissolve into Surrealism?
Didier Ottinger, Senior Curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
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New York Dada? Looking Back after a Second World War
Catherine Craft, Independent scholar and critic
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"Join Dada!" Aspects of Dada’s Reception since the Late 1950s
Hanne Bergius, Professor for the History of Art, Design and Architecture,
Burg Giebichenstein, University for Art and Design, Halle
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Dada and Surrealism Reviewed: From London 1978 to New York 2006
Dawn Ades, Professor, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex
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Approaching a Myth: The 1988 Reconstruction of Berlin’s First International Dada Fair of 1920
Helen Adkins, Art historian and independent curator, Berlin
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The Making of Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York (1996)
Francis Naumann, Independent scholar, curator, and art dealer
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“The Pattern that Connects Is a Meta-Pattern”: Dada’s Ongoing Challenges to Museum Practices
Tobia Bezzola, Curator, Kunsthaus Zurich
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Roundtable: Displaying Dada 2005–06
Leah Dickerman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Laurent Le Bon, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; and Anne Umland, Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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The Thought Is Made in the Mouth: Dada Sound Poetry and Manifestos
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
6:00 p.m.
An evening of historical Dada poetry with
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Bob Holman, and Pierre Joris. Held
in conjunction with the exhibition Dada.
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Note: Last-minute adjustments to this performance are not reflected in the PDF.
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On Sculpture: A Sculptors Panel
Monday, June 19, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Artists Judith Shea and Joel Shapiro discuss
modern and contemporary sculpture through individual presentations
and a conversation moderated by Ann Temkin, curator of the
exhibition. Held in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition
Against
the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection.
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World Art | Art World: Changing
Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Art
The Museum of Modern Art's Second Annual Graduate Symposium
In the past few decades, the art world has seen unprecedented growth and globalization. These developments are apparent in a number of areas: new and larger museums and cultural institutions; a thriving market of galleries, art fairs, and biennials around the world; new press outlets for the dissemination of art criticism, marketing, and education through traditional and new media; increased attention, research, and art that addresses non-Western subject matter; and the professionalization of artists, museum administrators, and curators through emerging MA, MFA, and PhD programs.
How do critics and scholars comprehend the significance of both local and international artistic activity? What traditional and new tools for analysis do they use? Art historian James Elkins has recently written that the prospect of world art history raises questions about the discipline's limits and future. Indeed, Western art history's traditional methods, assumptions, and parameters of research have been under debate for at least the last four decades. This symposium sought papers that drew on a variety of disciplines and approaches to address histories of world art and emerging trends in the contemporary art world, while focusing on specific works or projects.
Keynote: Friday, April 28
"De-Flattening Contemporary Global Art"
Professor Wu Hung, The Harrie H. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Chief Curator of the 2006 Gwangju Biennale; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia; and Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art.
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Symposium: Saturday, April 29
Introduction
David Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art.
"The Global Rules of Art"
Larissa Buchholz, State University of New York at Stony Brook
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"Some Aspects of the South American Question: Tucumán Arde's Bid for an Argentine Public Sphere"
Daniel R. Quiles, Graduate Center, City University of New York
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"From Local to Global: Recovering Gabriel Orozco's Naturaleza recuperada"
Jennifer Josten, Yale University
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Discussion
Moderator: Zdenka Badovinac, Director of Moderna Galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia
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"In Transit: Fantasy Coffins between Ghana, the Art Market, and Museums"
Roberta Bonetti, University of Bologna and l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris
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"(un)Lived Situations: Memórias Íntimas Marcas"
Wendy Morris, Institute for Research in the Arts, University of Leuven, Belgium
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"William Kentridge's Rock and the 'Weight of Europe Leaning on the Tip of Africa'"
Leora Maltz, Harvard University
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Discussion
Moderator: Salah Hassan, Chair of the Department of History of Art and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture at Africana Studies at Cornell University
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Without Boundary: Meditations on Truth
Thursday, May 4, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Understanding work by artists who come
from the Islamic world raises complex questions, especially
when examined within a postcolonial and Western context.
Artists Shirin Neshat and Walid Raad, and Gavatri Chakravorty
Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University, discuss diverse interpretations of truth, as
well as how they review, revise, and subvert received understandings
of the Islamic world. Note: Only three minutes of Walid
Raad's lecture are included in this recording. Held
in conjunction with the exhibition Without
Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking.
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Without Boundary: Home and Away
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Writers, cultural theorists, and artists
discuss the idea of "home" and the effects of
exile. Panelists include Homi Bhabha, Chair of the Program
in History and Literature, Harvard University, and artists
Shahzia Sikander and Shirazeh Houshiary. Held in conjunction
with the exhibition Without
Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking.
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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art
with Glenn D. Lowry
The Persistence of Figuration
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Glenn Lowry, Director of MoMA, moderates discussions with leading artists about contemporary art and culture. In this session, Dana Schutz and Ernesto Caivano discuss the persistence of painting and figuration.
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Obsession and Practice
Monday, February 27, 2006
6:00 p.m.
The Museum of Modern Art presents an interdisciplinary panel that investigates the repetitive, detail-oriented creative practices of artists, writers, and performers. Panelists include artists Trenton Doyle Hancock and Daniel Zeller, poet Susan Howe, and musician David Grubbs. Moderated by Brooke Davis Anderson, curator of Obsessive Drawing.
Held in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now and the American Folk Art Museum's exhibition Obsessive Drawing.
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Philip Johnson: Portraits
Thursday, February 16, 2006
6:00 p.m.
In honor of the modern architect and curator, Philip Johnson's powerful legacy is addressed through individual presentations, discussions, and a film screening.
"Portrait of the Curator as a Young Man"
Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
"The Very Picture of Architecture"
Jeffrey Kipnis, Professor of Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University.
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