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Carroll Dunham: Artist as Medium
When Carroll Dunham loaded his PowerPoint presentation for his Artists at the Institute lecture, “Carroll Dunham Speaks About His Recent Work,” at the IFA on March 22, he requested that the projectionist leave the screen blank before he began his … Continue reading
The many authoritative faces of Walid Raad: Thoughts from the lecture hall at the IFA
My internal conversation with the work of Walid Raad began as I paged my way through a monograph of his work, entitled Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: Some Essays from The Atlas Group Project (Cologne: Walther König, 2008), before … Continue reading
2012 Varnedoe Lecture 1: “Setting the Stage: From Postcolonial Utopia to Postcolonial Realism”
Okwui Enwezor gave his first talk of the Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series on Tuesday, February 21, called “Setting the Stage: From Postcolonial Utopia to Postcolonial Realism.” His series is titled “Episodes in Contemporary African Art,” which foreshadows a methodology centered … Continue reading
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Peter Halley: Isolation and Connectivity in the Big Apple
Peter Halley’s work is distinctive—once you’ve seen a few Peter Halleys you can easily pick them out. Buying into this perception to a certain extent, the “paintings” tab of his website has an “overview” option. If a visitor to his … Continue reading
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Professor Stanley Abe: “The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture” at the IFA
On January 31, 2012, Professor Stanley Abe gave a lecture entitled “The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture” as part of the Silberberg Lecture Series at the Institute of Fine Arts. Abe is an associate professor of art history at Duke … Continue reading
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Tagged asian art, china, IFA, lectures, silberberg, student posts
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