My online publication on James Rosenquist's Silo 1963-4 in the Tate collection is now available. The project includes rarely seen film footage showing the original version of the work, and a previously unpublished interview with the artist concerning its complicated history.
Read In Focus: Silo 1963-4 on the Tate website Posted 15 May 2017
Last week, I co-convened a workshop exploring museum and archival collections exploring land, landscape and the environment, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at part of the Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh initiative. Learn more at the CKP website My online publication on Louise Nevelson’s Black Wall 1959 in the Tate collection is now available. The publication includes a newly digitized interview with the artist and a contribution by Nevelson scholar Elyse Speaks (University of Notre Dame).
Read In Focus: Black Wall 1959 on the Tate website. Major works by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder and John Peter Russell will be shown at the National Gallery for the first time from December 2016. I am delighted to be contributing to the catalogue, alongside texts by Christopher Riopelle, Allison Goudie, Wayne Tunnicliffe, Tim Bonyhady and Sarah Thomas.
More details about the publication at the Yale University Press website. A recording of my paper at the Art and the Monetary conference at the Society of Fellows in Humanities at Columbia University is now online. Titled Making Money: Coins by Sculptors in 1962, this new research explores the involvement of a range of major sculptors in proposing new designs for American coinage.
Watch the video on YouTube. On Friday 10 June, I will be in conversation with Peter Stevens, Executive Director of the Estate of David Smith on the occasion of the David Smith: Form in Colour exhibition at Hauser and Wirth in Zurich.
More details on the Hauser and Wirth website. Occurring on 13 May, Art and Monetary is the second a series of three events on art and economics in which I am involved, organized with Maggie Cao (Columbia University/UNC at Chapel Hill) and Sophie Cras (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). I will be presenting on the Coins by Sculptors project from 1962.
See the full list of speakers on the Society of Fellows in the Humanities website |