To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21st Century
Initiatives in Art and Culture
21st Annual American Art Conference
Friday, May 20 — Saturday, May 21, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center at Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street
**** Museum professional, educator, and artist rate available
**** Student discount available
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In IAC's 21st Annual American Art Conference: To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21st Century, we consider iconic works by recognized masters, seeking to understand both why they were celebrated in their own time and why they retain their power today. At the same time, we explore the works of artists who did not retain the renown they enjoyed during their lifetimes and who fell into obscurity. But obscurity is not necessarily forever, and as cycles of taste have changed, these once-forgotten artists and their largely unknown works have re-surfaced to startle us today. Key to our exploration will be the roles of institutions and organizations in promulgating certain artists and certain works, in shaping taste, and in creating enduring reputations. Further, we will look at how American art is celebrated and experienced today by institutions, the market, and collectors. Last, we will explore what constitutes artistry (and how the conception of artistry changes over time) and the related imperative to nurture connoisseurship, both to discover the new and re-discover the old.
Formal sessions will be complemented by private receptions and viewings at D. Wigmore Fine Art and James Reinish & Associates.
Presenters (as of April 1, 2016):
· Virginia Budny, author. forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Gaston Lachaise’s oeuvre for The Lachaise Foundation
· Betsy Fahlman, Professor of Art History, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University · Kathleen A. Foster, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
· Tommy LiPuma, collector
· Kimberly Orcutt, independent scholar
· Mark Mitchell, The Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery
· Judith Hansen O'Toole, The Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
· Rebecca Reynolds, independent art consultant, curator, and author specializing in American sculpture
· Nancy Rivard Shaw, Curator Emerita of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts
· Julie Sloan, American stained glass and John La Farge scholar
· Suzanne Smeaton, independent frame historian and consultant
· Paul Staiti, Alumnae Foundation Professor of Fine Arts, Mount Holyoke College
· Joyce Hill Stoner, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Material Culture, University of Delaware (UD); Paintings Conservator, Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation
· James W. Tottis, museum consultant
· Meredith Ward, President, Meredith Ward Fine Art, specializing in American art from the 19th century to the present with focus on early 20th century American modernists
· Karen Wilkin, New York-based curator and critic specializing in 20th-century modernism
