EXHIBITION
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Selected Drawings and Prints from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
Press release here.
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 sevenlarge pen-and-ink portraits of Louis Aragon, one of France’sforemost 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 MatisseFoundation together with Museum Projects Partnership, and received support from La Maison Francaise of NYU, Artists Rights Society.
Sunday, November 7, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and Deutsches Haus
Reservations required: SOLD OUT
VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF The acclaimed German filmmaker, director of Young Törless; The Tin Drum (1979 Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film; Palme d'Or); Un amour de Swann; Death of a Salesman; The Handmaid's Tale; Homo Faber; and Strajk – Die Heldin von Danzig, among many others, speaks about his childhood in Germany, his education and early professional life in France, his love of cinema, and his career in Germany, France, and the U.S.
Monday, November 8, 7:00 p.m,
Florence Gould Lecture
FRANÇOIS NOUDELMANN Professor, Université de Paris VIII; Mainzer Distinguished Scholar in residence, NYU; radio producer of weekly program on music, literature, and philosophy, France Culture; author of Le Toucher des philosophes.
Trio musical pour trois fantômes:
Beckett, Sartre, Barthes
In French.
November 11-13
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 theFlorence Gould Foundation.
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