A Florence Gould Event
Conference - Celebrating the Centennial of Jean Genet’s birth
In English and in French.
Jean Genet in the USA
Thursday, November 11
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Jeannette Seaver
Chicago
Movie screening Jean Genet in Chicago (Frédéric Moffet; 2006)
Roundtable 1968: Chicago Democratic Convention
Barney Rosset, Jeannette Seaver, Phil Watts
Friday, November 12
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
JoAnn Akalaitis in conversation with Jennifer Tipton, on her production of The Screens at the Guthrie Theater
Richard Schechner on his productions of The Balcony and The Maids
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Roundtable: The Blacks in 1961
Edmund White, Christopher McElroen, André Gregory, Marianne de Pury, Tom Bishop (moderator)
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Ralph Heyndels
Les Noirs sur la blancheur livide: ou le sens possible de l’Amérique
Véronique Lane
Jean Genet et la Beat Generation
Saturday, November 13
2:30 p.m.
Albert Dichy
Notes inédites de genet sur l'Amérique : lecture commentée
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Roundtable:
1970: Genet and the Panthers
Thomas Spear, Tom Bishop (moderator), Marianne de Pury, Robert Harvey, Judith Oringer
Directed by Tom Bishop (NYU) and Albert Dichy (IMEC)
This conference is made possible by the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation.
Wednesday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Book Launch
EDWARD BERENSON
Director, Institute of French Studies, NYU
Introduced by Alice L. Conklin, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
Heroes of Empire: Manliness, Media, and Charisma in Europe's Conquest of Africa
(University of California Press, 2010)
Through December 21
(Please check website for days the gallery will be closed for university events)
EXHIBITION
Henri Matisse: Writers on Paper
Selected Drawings and Prints from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
Curated by Martin Fisher and Martin Mullin.
The first exhibition devoted to Matisse's male portraiture. Many of these drawings and prints of writers who were friends and collaborators of the artist have never before been exhibited. It includes a selection of intimate drawings and prints of writers, including Matisse’s friends, colleagues, and a young poet and martyr, Roger Bernard, whom Matisse admired.
Central to Writers on Paper are seven large pen-and-ink portraits of Louis Aragon, one of France’s foremost poets, who became one of Matisse’s most passionate advocates. Other drawings and lithographs in this jewel-like exhibition portray Henri de Montherlant, Paul Léautaud, and Matisse’s mysterious neighbor, Franz Thomassin, an avant-garde writer who published under the name Franz Viller. The images in this exhibition offer insights into the personalities of these writers. Indeed, Matisse’s spontaneous portraits are like frames from candid documentary films. Rendered in his hallmark stenographic style, the artist’s observations are imbued with clarity, elegance, and strong expressive power.
Above : Portrait d'homme de profil (Roger Bernard), 1946 Charcoal © 2010 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Organized by The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation together with Museum Projects Partnership, and received support from La Maison Francaise of NYU, Artists Rights Society.
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