CAMP AESTHETICS AND DESI VISUAL CULTURE
A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Alpesh Patel
November 22, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Alpesh Patel, CSGS Visiting Scholar and Independent Art Historian/Cultural Arts Producer
In the Western art world, a curious alliance has formed between those that are sympathetic to identity politics and those that [...]
“Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work New York University, 7 October 2010
A capacity crowd, their bodies packed against each other in the Studio at the Department of Performance Studies, came out on October 7th for a symposium on the work and legacy of the Cuban-American artist Ana [...]
Barbara Hammer MoMA Retrospective
9/15/10-10/13/10
MoMA CELEBRATES BARBARA HAMMER, WITH A MONTH-LONG RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PROLIFIC ARTIST’S EXTENSIVE BODY OF WORK
Exhibition Includes the World Premiere of Hammer’s Newest Film, Generations, as well as Her Groundbreaking Experimental Short Films and Documentaries
Barbara Hammer from [...]
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street
free
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” [...]
Presented by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Friday, March 5th at 6:30 PM
Panelists Dr. Katherine Manthorne of City University of New York’s Graduate Center; Catherine Coleman Brawer, M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Ph.D student Whitney Thompson, also of City University of New York’s Graduate Center, discuss the [...]
Linda Gordon
21 October, Wednesday 7 PM
Presented by the Leon Levy Center for Biography @ CUNY
Join us for the launch event for the highly anticipated biography of a complex figure in the American cultural and political landscape. Widely regarded as the most influential American female photographer of the twentieth century, Dorothea [...]
Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), a remarkable portraitist, was among the small number of women ever granted membership in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Her work was sought out by such diverse figures as the aunts of Louis XVI and the future American president Thomas Jefferson. She remained in France during the [...]