Our ARTalks are lively discussions on art and architecture with some of today's most respected artists, architects and critics.
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Friday, February 24, 2012, 6:30 PM *Note new time!
The Review Panel
David Cohen and art critics Franklin Einspruch, Faye Hirsch, and Christina Kee discuss current exhibitions on view in the City. Franklin Einspruch is a Boston-based artist and writer whose criticism has appeared in Art in America, The New Criterion and artcritical.com. Faye Hirsch is senior editor at Art in America. Christina Kee is a Brooklyn-based painter and writer. She has been a contributor to artcritical.com since 2009.
Mary Corse: New Work
Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26th Street
Ridley Howard: Slows
Leo Koenig, Inc., 545 West 23rd Street
Glenn Goldberg: elixirs, tales and remedies
Jason McCoy Gallery, 41 East 57th Street
Joyce Pensato: Batman Returns
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 West 22nd Street
No reservations required. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Panelists are subject to change
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 6:30 PM
Artists in Dialogue with Joan Jonas and Kate Gilmore.
Moderator: Marshall Price, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum
For nearly two centuries the National Academy’s Annual has been a forum in which many generations of artists and architects have shown side-by-side. “Artists in Dialogue” brings together two artists of different generations to discuss similarities, influences, inspirations in their work, illustrating the ongoing intergenerational dialogue occurring between artists. This program will be part of the Annual: 2012.
Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 PM
On and On and On: Arlene Shechet and Faye Hirsch in Conversation
In her recent profile on sculptor Arlene Shechet for Art in America, senior editor Faye Hirsch described the artist’s abstract enigmatic ceramic works as filled with a deep vulnerability and humanity. Shechet has recently had a series of solo exhibitions and was a 2010-11 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Winner, a 2010-11 Anonymous Was A Woman Award winner, and her paper works will be the subject of a forthcoming exhibition at Dieu Donné, New York.
Friday, March 30, 2012, 6:30 PM *Note new time!
The Review Panel
David Cohen and art critics Bill Berkson, Will Heinrich, and Karen Wilkin discuss current exhibitions on view in the City. Bill Berkson is a poet, a corresponding editor for Art in America, contributing editor for artcritical.com, and Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute. Will Heinrich writes about art for The New York Observer. Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and critic and regular contributor to The New Criterion and The Wall Street Journal.
Please check back for exhibition selections. No reservations required. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Panelists are subject to change.
Wednesday, April 11, 2 PM
Curator’s Insights
Marshall N. Price, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, leads a gallery talk on some of the highlights from The Annual:2012.
Wednesday, April 18th, 6:30 PM
Becoming Calder: How Alexander Calder's artistic childhood shaped the man who invented the mobile
Alexander Calder was born into a family of artists; his father and his paternal grandfather were well-known sculptors, and his mother was a gifted painter. But the extent to which his parents' artistic world shaped Calder's art has never been fully explored or adequately understood. Calder’s parents, Alexander Stirling Calder and Nanette Lederer Calder have all too often been described as academic or conservative artists. The truth is that they were ardent modernists, with a deep understanding of the artistic revolutions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on fresh documents and sources, Jed Perl, who is currently writing the first full-length life of the artist will show how Calder's avant-garde vision was beginning to be shaped, even in his earliest years, by his artistic parents' progressive ideas and ideals.
Jed Perl is the art critic for The New Republic. Among his books are New Art City, Antoine’s Alphabet, and Eyewitness. He is currently working on the first full-length biography of Alexander Calder.
Friday, April 27, 2012, 6:30 PM *Note new time!
The Review Panel
David Cohen and art critics Lance Esplund, Maddie Phinney, and Barry Schwabsky discuss current exhibitions on view in the City. Lance Esplund is an art critic and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and senior art critic of CityArts Magazine. Maddie Phinney specializes in representations of gender and queerness in visual culture and has published her work at artcritical.com, BOMBlog, and V Magazine. Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation as well as co-editor of international reviews for Artforum.
Please check back for exhibition selections. No reservations required. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Panelists are subject to change.
