Tuesday, September 13, 6:30 p.m. (note time)
A Florence Gould Event
Roundtable Discussion (in French)
Location:
Hemmerdinger Hall, NYU Silver Center
100 Washington Square West, Ground fl.
Les Lieux de l’art
Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. With 31 years in office, he was the longest tenured director at the Met.
JOACHIM PISSARRO
Bershad Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, and a curator in MOMA’s Painting & Sculpture Department. He is a contributor to Apollo and Artforum magazines.
PHILIPPE VERGNE
Director of the Dia Art Foundation. He was previously Director of the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Marseille; Chief Curator and then Deputy Director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and co-curator of the Whitney Biennial in 2006.
DONATIEN GRAU (moderator)
Contributing editor of Flash Art International and teaches at the Sorbonne. He has written extensively on the transmission of classical culture and on the arts, and has co-authored a book on curating.
Contemporary art seems to have changed the way we see art, and the places where it is supposed to be presented. Some of the most iconic exhibitigons of recent art have taken place outside of the traditional venue of the museum. Is it its destiny to be shown everywhere? Or does the experience of art belong to a certain time and space? Is the situation the same for ancient and for contemporary art?
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Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 p.m.
Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy
Nos sociétés actuelles: Entre construction de soi et perception de l’Autre
La globalisation semble avoir transformé profondément notre rapport individuel aux nations. Certains des grands phénomènes structurant nos sociétés se situent désormais largement en-dehors des systèmes traditionnels des Etats et de leurs politiques. Comment nos appartenances se recomposent-elles ? L'art contemporain ou la littérature permettent-ils d'en saisir les n¦uds ? Comment participent-ils à l'élaboration d' « effets de lieu » collectifs et à de nouveaux systèmes de construction de soi et de perception de l'Autre ? La diplomatie culturelle est au coeur de ces questions. Permet-elle d'élaborer des outils pour travailler ces mécanismes ?
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