www.sva.edu/artinthefirstperson
School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Spring 2012 Art in the First Person lecture series, 19 talks that bring together notable artists, critics, curators and historians for in-depth discussions on issues in contemporary art.
Offering a 360˚ perspective on art today, speakers include: artists Susan Bee, Kathe Burkhart, Susan Hefuna, Milagros de la Torre and Carrie Moyer; critics Mark Dery, Max Kozloff, Bettina Mathes and Robert Storr; and historians Mary Ann Caws, Michèle C. Cone, Catharine Stimpson, Anne Wagner and Barbara Will.
Thursday, February 2, 7pm
Kathe Burkhart
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
Monday, February 13, 7pm
Art Department
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department
Tuesday, February 14, 7pm
Anne Wagner: Time Lines: On the Drawings of Anthony McCall
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department
Thursday, February 16, 7pm
The Case for Appropriation: A Panel Moderated by Joy Garnett
With Joy Garnett, Christopher Phillips, Virginia Rutledge, Robert Storr and Oliver Wasow
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department
Tuesday, February 21, 6:30pm
Max Kozloff: As Luck Would Have It: The Element of Chance in Photography
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department
Thursday, February 23, 6:30pm
Susan Bee: Recalculating: Paintings and Collaborations
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
Monday, February 27, 7pm
Amy Stein
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department
Tuesday, February 28, 7pm
Fixing Shadows: Milagros de la Torre in Conversation with Charles Traub and Carla Stellweg
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department
Monday, March 19, 7pm
Justine Reyes
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department
Monday, March 26, 7pm
Sasha Wolf
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department
Thursday, March 29, 6:30pm
Michael Sappol: How to Be Modern with Scientific Illustration: Fritz Kahn, Popular Medicine and the Visual Rhetoric of Modernity, 1916–1960
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
Monday, April 2, 7pm
Timothy Sexton
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department
Monday, April 2, 7pm
The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michèle Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars
With Mary Ann Caws, Michèle C. Cone, Catharine Stimpson and Barbara Will
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department
Tuesday, April 3, 7pm
Carrie Moyer
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
Thursday, April 12, 7pm
Joan Richardson: Into the Cosmic Weather: Imagination as Value
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department
Monday, April 16, 7pm
Gerald Cyrus
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department
Tuesday, April 17, 7pm
Yes, You Don’t Know Me—Susan Hefuna in Conversation with Bettina Mathes
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department
Saturday, May 12, 10am – 6pm
The Pathological Sublime: Morbid Anatomies, Medical Grotesqueries
With Mark Dery, Joanna Ebenstein and Suzanne Anker
335 West 16 Street
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
Friday, June 1, 9am
TEDxChelsea Conference: Ideas Worth Spreading
With Suzanne Anker, Phil Buehler and Reven Wurman
335 West 16 Street
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
Admission is free and open to the public.
Information is subject to change. Please confirm at www.sva.edu/artinthefirstperson or 212.592.2010.