March 2008 Newsletter 1. Fine Arts Society Sponsored EventsThe Ritchie and Charles Scribner Distinguished Lectures in the History of ArtThe Inaugural Lecture, given by Prof. Colin Renfrew, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn The Destruction of the Past: Time to Say No Monday, March 10, 2008, 6:00pm Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center 100 Washington Square East Reception to Follow Lord Renfrew is Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, and former Master of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. The Inaugural Lecture is organized by the Department of Art History, and co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Society, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Department of Classics, and the Department of Anthropology. Frick Collection Visit, Lecture, and Discussion Wednesday, March 26, 4:45pm Please join us to go to the Frick Collection to see the magnificent painting Antea, by Parmigianino. After viewing the work, we will attend a lecture about the painting, and then treat everyone to coffee and dessert at a nearby café, so we can talk about the painting and the lecture. Lecture: Portraying Beauty: Parmigianino and His Contemporaries Elizabeth Cropper, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Please meet at the Department of Art History, 303 Silver, at 4:45pm. The event is free of charge, but bring a Metro card. Day Trip to Dia Beacon Saturday, March 29, 2008, 9:30am-5:00pm We will have a tour of the galleries beginning with a special viewing of Michael Heizer’s North, East, South, West. Afterwards, we will have lunch at the museum café, and then attend a lecture on Agnes Martin, to be given by Christina Rosenberger, research coordinator for the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard University. We will send out an email with details on how to RSVP after spring break. Lecture: The Art and Architecture of Medieval Georgia Monday, March 31, 6:00pm To be given by Dr. Irina Koshoridze, Curator of Islamic Art at the National Museum of Georgia in Tblisi Silver Center, Room 301 Reception to Follow 2. Art at NYUEXHIBITIONS THE BARNEY BUILDING, (34 Stuyvesant Street) 2nd and 3rd floor galleries One of Something On view through March 31, 2008 Featuring faculty Koya Abe, Nancy Barton, Ann Chwatsky, Kathleen Graves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kristin Holcomb, Sean Justice, Clifford Owens, Jim Pavlicovic, Don Penny, Adam Putnam, Pattersoin Beckwih, Hiroshi Sunairi, Ashley Thayer, Gerry Pryor, Karen Shasha. Rosenberg Gallery Death and Taxes: Sam Parker and Sam Tierney, ’09 BFA Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 5, 6-8pm On view through March 22, 2008 80 WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST GALLERIES Small Works, juried by Richard Witter, OK Harris Works of Art On view through March 14, 2008 For over three decades our Small Works show has provided a visual forum for both established and undiscovered artists working in small format. This juried exhibit includes artworks in every medium imaginable, and offers an opportunity to see together in one place in New York City hundreds of artworks selected from thousands of local and international entries. BROADWAY WINDOWS, (Northwest Corner of Broadway and East 10th St.) Jae Hi Ahn, Planting Season On view through April 1, 2008 Ahn seeks to celebrate all that is fragile and evanescent in the natural world by reclaiming and reconstituting our industrial discards. Mylar cutouts, PVC tubing, bent wires and straight pins-- all have their physical properties deftly transmuted from inorganic to organic when they are interlaced into magical and luminous sculpture. "My inspiration comes from insignificant items that I re-define, re-purpose, and re-value. I use everyday life industrial materials and methods [to] create natural forms. The materials are revitalized through a new perspective...." GREY ART GALLERY, (100 Washington Square East) Richard Diebenkorn, Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950-1952 On view through April 5, 2008 Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950–1952 brings together approximately fifty paintings and drawings from this period for the first time. A devoted individualist, the California-based artist is known for his Abstract Expressionist and figurative paintings as well as his revered “Ocean Park Series” of abstracted landscapes. http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/diebenkorn/diebenkorn.html LECTURES At La Maison Francaise (16 Washington Mews) Tuesday, March 25, 7:00pm Architecture and Authority in the Roman d'Alexandre Mark Cruse, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University Thursday, March 27, 6:00pm Book Launch Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié Edited by Edward J. Sullivan (Arte al Dia Press, 2007) Edouard Duval Carrie in conversation with Edward J. Sullivan, Dean of Humanities, Art historian, NYU Michael Dash, Professor of French, NYU Sarah Lewis, Art historian, Yale University Visiting Artist and Curator Talks Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions Mar 6: Michael Connor Mar 13: Matthew Ronay Mar 27: Philippe Vandenberg All talks are free, open to the public, and take place at 5:00pm in Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street, Barney Building. (At 9th Street between 3rd and 2nd Avenues) AT THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS The James B. Duke House, 1 East 78th Street The Daniel H. Silberberg Lectures in the Fine Arts A series of lectures, planned and coordinated by the Graduate Student Association, is scheduled throughout the academic year. Admission is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Friday, March 7, 2008, 4:00pm The Atoms of Epicurus: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline Cecily Hilsdale, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University Friday, March 28, 2008, 4:00pm The Twilight of Posterity Kaja Silverman, Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film, University of California, Berkeley 3. NYC Art EventsSELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street) Jasper Johns: Gray On view through May 4, 2008 Gustav Courbet On view through May 18, 2008 Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions On view through May 11, 2008 The Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street) Whitney Biennial 2008 March 6-June 3; From March 6-23, the Biennial extends to Park Avenue Armory Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster On view through April 27, 2008 Guggenheim Museum (1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street) Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe On view through May 28, 2008 The Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street) Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today On view through May 12, 2008 The Morgan Library and Museum (225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street) Michelangelo, Vasari, and Their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi On view through April 20, 2008 Close Encounters: Irving Penn: Portraits of Artists and Writers On view through April 13, 2008 The Frick Collection (1 East 70th Street at Fifth Avenue) Parmagianino’s Antea On view through April 27, 2008 The Neue Galerie (Fifth Avenue at 86th Street) Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry Opens on March 27, 2008 LECTURES Sunday at the Met: Nicolas Poussin (free with museum admission) Sunday March 9, 2008 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2:00pm "A shock of surprised delight": Roger Fry and Poussin Caroline Elam, Kennedy Professor of Art, Department of Art, Smith College 2:30pm A Wild Beauty: The 17th–Century Sublime Helen J. Langdon, research fellow, The British School at Rome 3:00pm The Reception of Poussin's Landscape in France: From the Private Patrons to Félibien and the Royal Academy Olivier Bonfait, professor, University of Provence Aix-Marseilles 3:30 p.m. Poussin and the 19th Century Richard Verdi, professor, Department of History of Art, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (retired) The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University What is Modernism? Monday, March 24, 8:00pm 501 Schermerhorn Hall A round table discussion featuring Arthur Danto, Paul Goldberger, Daphne Merkin, and Edward Rothstein, with chair Robert Weil. www.heymancenter.org |
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