Free Talks with Notable Artists, Critics and CuratorsSeptember 14 - December 15, 2009School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Fall 2009 Art in the First Person lecture series, 15 free talks that bring together notable artists, critics and curators for in-depth discussions on contemporary art. The series begins on September 14 with a dialogue between Dutch photographer
Hellen van Meene and photo blogger
Jorg Colberg. Highlights include:
- artist talks with Elizabeth Peyton, David Salle and Robin Winters;
- conversations with writers Dave Hickey, Gary Indiana and Sylvere Lotringer; and
- Modernism and the Global Diaspora, a panel discussion moderated by former Whitney Museum Director David Ross with Studio Museum Executive Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden, San Francisco Art Institute Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs Hou Hanru artist Susan Hefuna and curator Vasif Kortun.
All Art in the First Person events are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Please visit
www.sva.edu/events or call 212.592.2010 for more information.
Event DetailsHellen van Meene in conversation with Jorg ColbergMonday, September 14, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene has exhibited her work in New York City, London, Holland and Germany. Her photographs have been collected in several books, including the recently published
Hellen van Meene: New Photographs (Schirmer/Mosel, 2009). Blogger Jorg Colberg is the founder and editor of the pioneering photo blog
Conscientious. In 2006, he was named a Photography Innovator by
American Photo and is a regular contributor to the magazine’s Web site. Presented by the BFA Photography Department at SVA and
Dear Dave, magazine.
Gary IndianaTuesday, September 15, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Writer, filmmaker and visual artist Gary Indiana is known for both his art criticism--which has appeared in
Art in America,
Artforum,
The Village Voice and other publications--and his fictional works including
Resentment and
Three Month Fever. His most recent novel,
The Shanghai Gesture, was released this year by independent publisher Two Dollar Radio. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments at SVA.
Dave HickeyThe God EnnuiThursday, September 17, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Writer and critic Dave Hickey is the author of the highly regarded collections of critical essays
The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Art Issues Press, 1993),
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (Art Issues Press, 1998) and the forthcoming
Pagan America (Simon and Schuster, 2010). He was the recipient of a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship, and is currently the Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department at SVA.
David Salle in conversation with Karen LangTuesday, September 29, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Artist David Salle is a figurative painter whose works are in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as many other institutions around the world. He will be in conversation with educator and art historian Karen Lang, who is an associate professor of art history at the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, and the author of
Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History (Cornell University Press, 2005). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments at SVA.
Robin WintersThursday, October 1, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Multimedia artist Robin Winters works in painting, printmaking, performance, glass and installation, and is the co-founder of the artist cooperative Colab. His artwork can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Stedelijk and Boymans museums in the Netherlands, and he has collaborated with artists including Kathy Acker, Gregory Corso, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin and Kiki Smith. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments at SVA.
Tim Davis, Tim Hetherington and An-My Le with Richard B. WoodwardSocial Change, Conflict and a New Photographic ParadigmFriday, October 23, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Photographers Tim Davis, Tim Hetherington and An-My Le will discuss contemporary war photography in a panel moderated by Richard B. Woodward, organized in conjunction with Visions of War: The Arts Represent Conflict. Presented by the BFA Photography and Humanities & Sciences Departments at SVA.
David Humphrey, Geoff Kaplan and Molly Nesbit with Gloria KuryBlind HandshakeTuesday, October 27, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
David Humphrey, Geoff Kaplan and Molly Nesbit will discuss their collaborations on two 2009 books about contemporary art--Humphrey’s
Blind Handshake and
Nesbit’s Midnight, The Tempest Essays in a panel moderated by Gloria Kury. Kaplan is a graphic designer at the General Working Group and teaches at California College of the Arts. Kury is an art historian who has taught at Yale and SVA, and is the founder and director of Periscope Publications. Nesbit is a professor of art at Vassar College and the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Visiting Professor of 2007 at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Humphrey is a writer and visual artist who is a recipient of the Rome Prize and a senior critic at the Yale School of Art. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies and MFA Design Criticism Departments at SVA.
Sylvere LotringerPaul Virilio: The Itinerary of CatastropheThursday, October 29, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Writer and cultural theorist Sylvere Lotringer will give a talk on philosopher Paul Virilio’s proposition of speed and catastrophe as the generative principle of contemporary society, following a screening of
The Itinerary of Catastrophe, a filmed conversation with Virilio. Lotringer is professor emeritus at Columbia University, where he founded the influential journal
Semiotext(e). He is the co-author of
Pure War (Semiotext(e), 1983) and
Crepuscular Dawn (Semiotext(e), 2002), and the author of
Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007). Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department at SVA.
Elizabeth PeytonDistinguished Alumnus LectureThursday, November 5, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Painter
and SVA alumnus Elizabeth Peyton (BFA 1987 Fine Arts) will deliver the
fall Distinguished Alumnus Lecture. Her stylized portraits of subjects
ranging from pop stars to historical monarchs have been exhibited at
museums and galleries around the world. In 2008, the New Museum of
Contemporary Art organized a mid-career retrospective of Peyton’s work.
Presented by the Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts.
Lucio PozziThe Next 475 Years of My Art and LifeTuesday, November 10, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Multi-media artist Lucio Pozzi will present The Next 475 Years of My Art and Life, a lecture and work of art that he has been developing over three decades. He is a member of the faculty of the MFA Fine Arts and BFA Fine Arts Departments, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and others. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA.
Eleanor HeartneyArt Today: Tales of Plastic Surgery, Genetically Altered Rabbits and Other Acts of ArtTuesday, November 17, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Critic Eleanor Heartney will present a talk that examines the critical framework for art in an era of extreme pluralism. Heartney received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism in 1992, and is a past president of the American International Art Critics Association (AICA-USA). She is a contributing editor to
Art in America and
Artpress and author of
Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (Midmarch Arts Press, 2004), and
Art and Today (Phaidon Press, 2008). Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department at SVA.
Thelma Golden, Hou Hanru, Susan Hefuna and Vasif Kortun with David RossModernism & the Global DiasporaTuesday, December 1, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Thelma Golden, Hou Hanru, Susan Hefuna and Vasif Kortun will examine the impact of the global art scene on Modernism in a panel discussion moderated by David Ross. Golden is executive director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Hanru is the director of exhibitions and public programs at the San Francisco Art Institute; Hefuna is an artist based in Egypt and Germany; Kortun is the director of the Platform Garanti Contemporary Arts Center in Istanbul; and Ross is editor-at-large for the FLYP Web site, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a member of the BFA Fine Arts Department faculty at SVA. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA.
Phong Bui and FriendsOn the Teaching of Meyer SchapiroThursday, December 3, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Artist and curator Phong Bui will moderate a panel of former students of the great art historian Meyer Schapiro, following the screening of a short film of Schapiro teaching. Bui is a curatorial advisor at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, where he has presented award-winning installations. He is editor and publisher of
The Brooklyn Rail, and has exhibited work at museums and galleries across the country. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department at SVA.
Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney KulokPaintings/Photographs/Problems/PossibilitiesTuesday, December 15, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Artists Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok discuss their own work and a collective project entitled
Painting Then For Now, a series of photographic prints. Alpers is an art historian, critic and artist whose books include
The Vexations of Art: Velazquez and Others (Yale, 2005) and
The Art of Describing (Chicago, 1983). Hyde is a multi-media artist whose work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Kulok is a photographer whose recent solo exhibitions include Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (2009) and Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (2008). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments at SVA.
About SVASchool of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
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