ABOUT THE 150 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART LECTURE SERIES
This lecture series, held every two years in conjunction with the Education Department’s docent training course, will cover the history of art from the mid-nineteenth century through 2012. Curator of Education Mariann Smith and Associate Curator of Education Nancy Spector will focus on works in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Collection as they cover both the art and the history of the past 150 years. The series continues through Saturday, March 16, 2013. Doors for all lectures open at 11 am. View Full Schedule
Location: Auditorium
PHYSICAL FACT/FLEETING IDEA: MINIMALISM AND CONCEPTUAL ART
WITH ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF EDUCATION NANCY SPECTOR
Saturday, January 19, 2013, 11:15 am
What can you eliminate from sculpture and painting and have it still be art? Is it possible for a work of art to refer to nothing but itself? Must an artist use his or her own hands to make an artwork? Which is more important: the object or the idea? Come and view the results of this debate through the work of artists such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Agnes Martin, and Robert Mangold, who pondered these very questions in the 1960s and 1970s.
PAINTING SINCE 1970, PART 1
WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH
Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:15 am
The news of the death of painting in the 1960s was greatly exaggerated. Since then, painters have taken many paths, developing new approaches and adopting new materials. Artists of the 1970s came up with a variety of ways to reintroduce representational images into art; stories, imagination, and expression were all resurrected by artists such as Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and Julian Schnabel. Since then, painters have developed even more new approaches—many of them non-traditional—adopted new materials, and taken painting in many creative and fascinating directions.
PAINTING SINCE 1970, PART 2
WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH
Saturday, February 2, 2013, 11:15 am
The news of the death of painting in the 1960s was greatly exaggerated. Since then, painters have taken many paths, developing new approaches and adopting new materials. Artists of the 1970s came up with a variety of ways to reintroduce representational images into art; stories, imagination, and expression were all resurrected by artists such as Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and Julian Schnabel. Since then, painters have developed even more new approaches—many of them non-traditional—adopted new materials, and taken painting in many creative and fascinating directions.
SCULPTURE SINCE 1970, PART 1
WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH
Saturday, February 9, 2013, 11:15 am
Sculpture has moved way beyond the traditional stone, wood, and metal of the past. In this lecture, you will learn about works made of unusual materials—including horsehair, taxidermy animals and eyes, television sets, furniture, rubber, and sardines—as well as works that take traditional materials and use them in new and unexpected ways.
SCULPTURE SINCE 1970, PART 2
WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH
Saturday, February 16, 2013, 11:15 am
Sculpture has moved way beyond the traditional stone, wood, and metal of the past. In this lecture, you will learn about works made of unusual materials—including horsehair, taxidermy animals and eyes, television sets, furniture, rubber, and sardines—as well as works that take traditional materials and use them in new and unexpected ways.
PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1970, PART 1
WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH
Saturday, February 23, 2013, 11:15 am
Although it took quite a while for photography to be considered art, the Gallery has supported the medium ever since its landmark exhibition of pictorial photography in 1910. Photography Since 1970, Parts 1 and 2 will consider the many different themes explored in contemporary photography and the wide variety of ways artists present them. These lectures will explore works featuring landscapes, urban scenes, interiors, images of individuals and groups, and political and social commentary.
PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1970, PART 2
WITH CURATOR OF EDUCATION MARIANN SMITH
Saturday, March 2, 2013, 11:15 am
Although it took quite a while for photography to be considered art, the Gallery has supported the medium ever since its landmark exhibition of pictorial photography in 1910. Photography Since 1970, Parts 1 and 2 will consider the many different themes explored in contemporary photography and the wide variety of ways artists present them. These lectures will explore works featuring landscapes, urban scenes, interiors, images of individuals and groups, and political and social commentary.
VIDEO SINCE 1970, PART 1
WITH ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF EDUCATION NANCY SPECTOR
Saturday, March 9, 2013, 11:15 am
Just as photography was an exciting new medium in the mid-nineteenth century, video was a new medium available to individual artists for the first time in the 1960s. Since then, artists have harnessed the flexibility of video to express the ideas of a new millennium brimming with technology. Many museums, including the Albright-Knox, are now vigorously collecting and exhibiting works in video and other new media.
VIDEO SINCE 1970, PART 2
Just as photography was an exciting new medium in the mid-nineteenth century, video was a new medium available to individual artists for the first time in the 1960s. Since then, artists have harnessed the flexibility of video to express the ideas of a new millennium brimming with technology. Many museums, including the Albright-Knox, are now vigorously collecting and exhibiting works in video and other new media.
From the maker of Helvetica comes Urbanized (2011, 85 min), Gary Hustvit's most recent feature documentary about the design of cities, featuring some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
A documentary travelogue and portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, U.S.A. Sabine Gruffat is an artist living and working in North Carolina, experimenting with the technologies and conventions inherent in media.
