Tonight: Fabulated Archives–Carrie Lambert-Beatty in Conversation with Zoe Beloff & Katarina Burin

This evening at 6:30 PM, join Center of the Humanities and GC Art History for hosting Fabulated Archives, a discussion featuring art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty and artists Zoe Beloff and Katarina Burin on the fictional, the parafictional, and the seemingly fictitious but true in contemporary art. (Nov 10, 2015, 6:30 pm, Room C-198, The Graduate Center, CUNY)

In a world in which “truthiness” has entered the Oxford English Dictionary, how are artists responding to the newly malleable condition of fact? Art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty has categorized the recent strategies of contemporary artists to creatively play with the conventions of storytelling and history as the parafictional. Neither pure invention nor just the facts, today artists are employing archives and historical material to produce new stories in unprecedented ways to engender skepticism, doubt, and hope on the part of the viewer. Within such works, the notion of history and the belief in truth undergoes destabilization but not obliteration.

Student News: Daniel Palmer Co-Cuartes “Unorthodox” at the Jewish Museum

Daniel Palmer, a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center and the Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum has co-organized Unorthodox, a large-scale group exhibition featuring over 50 contemporary artists from around the world whose practices mix forms and genres without concern for artistic conventions.

Curated by Palmer along with Jens Hoffmann, the museum’s Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, and Assistant Curator Kelly Taxter, the exhibition highlights the importance of iconoclasm and art’s key role in breaking rules and traditions. Numerous works that examine social and political values, religion and humanism, trauma, and identity explore the relationship between the human figure and the modern creative process.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum will host a conversation between GC professor Claire and artist Joshua Decter, Thursday, 11/12.

Tomorrow: Professor Anna C. Chave Speaking at Helen Frankenthaler Symposium

 

Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, is hosting a symposium exploring new perspectives on the work of artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). The event will take place at the Institute’s James B. Duke House (1 East 78th Street) on Friday afternoon, October 23, 2015, from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.

At 2:15, Professor Chave will speak on “Frankenthaler’s Fortunes,” and how social privilege may have affected her position—and self positioning—in the art world.

RSVP is required. Click here for a full schedule of the proceedings

Co-organized by Robert Slifkin, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, and Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Art History, NYU, in partnership with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, this afternoon program will feature presentations by five leading scholars of postwar modern art.

Eric de Chassey (DirectorAcadémie Française, Rome) will address Frankenthaler’s “Negotiations” between nature and abstraction and between process and gesture. Pepe Karmel will give a “Weather Report” on opticality and liquidity in the work of Frankenthaler and Gerhard Richter. Katy Siegel (Thaw Professor, Stony Brook University) will discuss “The heroine Paint,” and how decoration, feminism, and materiality have evolved in the years after Frankenthaler. Harry Cooper (Curator and Head of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) will serve as respondent.

 

 

 

 

Faculty News: Marta Gutman Awarded Urban History Association’s Kenneth Jackson Book Prize, to Speak at MoMA This Evening

 

 

Professor Marta Gutman’s A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 has been awarded the Urban History Association’s Kenneth Jackson Award for the best North American book in 2014. Her co-recipient is Nathan Connolly, who won for his book “Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.”

In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy.

On Wednesday, October 21, Gutman will participate in the panel, Is This for Everyone? Design and the Common Good at MoMA from 6:00–7:30 p.m. This event will also be live-streamed online.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition, This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, the panel addresses case studies and theoretical applications in which design intersects with ideas of the common good. Panelists look to their own work to consider how this intersection arises across social, political, economic, and cultural platforms, as presented in the exhibition.

Gutman’s co-participants include Laura Kurgan, Director of Visual Studies, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and Raphael Sperry, architect, green-building consultant, and president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. Paola Antonelli, senior curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, moderates.