Join Professor Joselit, Mary Ann Caws, Thierry de Duve, Sophie Seita, and Elizabeth Zuba for Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices, an evening of Dada-inspired conversation, with a special focus on New York Dada magazine “The Blind Man, ” edited by Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917, recently republished in a facsimile edition by Ugly Duckling Presse. Continue reading “Tonight: David Joselit on Marcel Duchamp, “The Blind Man,” and New York Dada at the Graduate Center”
April 19-20: Super/Natural: Excess, Ecologies, and Art in the Americas
Save the dates for Super/Natural: Excess, Ecologies, and Art in the Americas, co-organized by Graduate Center Ph.D. candidates Danielle Stewart and Gillian Sneed, and Ph.D. student Horacio Ramos. Continue reading “April 19-20: Super/Natural: Excess, Ecologies, and Art in the Americas”
Student News: Abigail Lapin Dardashti Organizes an Exhibition and Conference on Contemporary Art in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Abigail Lapin Dardashti, a doctoral candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, has organized two related events: the conference Art and Literature in Contemporary Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas at the Center for the Humanities, and the exhibition Bordering the Imaginary at BRIC. Continue reading “Student News: Abigail Lapin Dardashti Organizes an Exhibition and Conference on Contemporary Art in Haiti and the Dominican Republic”
Tuesday Oct. 24: Casting the Curriculum: The Parthenon Marbles, Plaster Casts, and Public Sculpture
Please join the The Center for the Humanities and the Yale Center for British Art Tuesday, October 24th for Casting the Curriculum: The Parthenon Marbles, Plaster Casts, and Public Sculpture, a day-long symposium on the legacy of the Parthenon and the production and reception of public sculpture. Speakers include GC Art History professors Rachel Kousser and Harriet Senie, Katherine Schwab, Ray Ring, Keith Wilson, Martina Droth, and Rebecca Wade. Continue reading “Tuesday Oct. 24: Casting the Curriculum: The Parthenon Marbles, Plaster Casts, and Public Sculpture”
Tomorrow: Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe.
Please join us for the conference: Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe. Continue reading “Tomorrow: Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe.”
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.