Guest Lecture- Nov 5th-“Charting the Contemporary: On Writing Art Histories of the Present.”
Please join us Thursday, November 5th for a lecture by Brandeis University’s Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Peter R. Kalb.
Professor Kalb’s most recent publication is Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, (Pearson and Laurence King: New York and London, 2013) which details the expanding contemporary art world from its New York explosion in the early 1980s to is global expanse in the 21st century. Before preparing Art Since 1980, he was the revising author of the Fifth Edition of H.H. Arnason History of Modern Art and the author of High Drama: The New York Cityscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe and Margaret Bourke-White. His scholarship addresses issues in twentieth and twenty-first century art and criticism and he serves as the Boston-based corresponding editor for Art in America. Current projects include a series of articles on the politics of representation as evident in the work of Andrea Bowers as well as writing on the innovative practice of bricolage in the work of Tom Sachs and the history of emergence in the contemporary art world. Kalb most recently contributed “When We’re Screwed We Multiply: Andrea Bowers and Representation for Democracy,” to Rebecca McGrew ed. Andrea Bowers (2014).
The talk will take place at 5:30PM in CAS Room 303A, and refreshments will be served.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions, and we look forward to seeing you there!