The Art Department is sponsoring two lectures this week that are free and open to the public!
NORMAN L. KLEEBLATT
University Union, Potomac Lounge
TODAY! Tuesday, April 20, 7 p.m.
Norman Kleeblatt, the New York Jewish Museum?s Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts, has been a curator at the museum since 1981. He has played a major role in the development of the museum?s collection of modern and contemporary art and has curated numerous exhibitions there that challenged aesthetic and cultural assumptions including, “The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice” (1987), “Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities” (1996) and “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art” (2002).
His talk focuses on the much discussed and debated “Mirroring Evil” exhibition.
SALLY J. MORGAN
?Art is a Process Defined by Its Context?
University Union, Chesapeake Room
Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m.
The Artists? Placement Group, a radical group of British artists working out of London in the last part of the twentieth century, used to have a motto which ran, “The Context is Half the Work.” What they meant by this was, at its simplest, where a work was situated was as important to its meaning as how and why it was made. Many artists have made public artworks, but fewer have been successful in understanding the changes in approach that are necessary once an artwork is removed from the neutral, ?white-box? of the gallery into the contested space of the public realm. British artist Sally J. Morgan has specialized in ?contextual practice? in the UK, Europe and New Zealand. Her work has included site-specific installations and performances, and “New Genre Public Art” with community participants. In this talk she discusses some of the issues arising from that practice.
Sally J. Morgan is Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. She has exhibited at the ICA in London, Arnolfini in Bristol, England and various other well-respected venues in the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands, as well as producing commissioned ?contextual? pieces. She has published numerous articles on contextual art practice and wrote the opening chapter of Art with People, edited by Malcolm Dickson and published by Artic Press in 1995.
If you have questions, please contact Jim Paulsen, x4-2804 or {jpaulsen@towson.edu}.
