MEMORY, MEDIA AND CULTURAL CREATIVITY
FALL 2009
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SOME EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

NYU’s Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
September 1st- December 5th, 2009

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery.




DISTINGUISHED LECTURE


IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Thursday, September 17, 6:30–8:30 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

Fred Myers, Silver Professor and Chair of Anthropology, NYU

Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia

Myers explores how aboriginal painters negotiate cultural restrictions in creating public work.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery




LECTURE


IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Thursday, October 22, 6:00 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

All these dots are making me dizzy: An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement

Franchesca Cubillo (Larrakia), Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia, offers an Indigenous perspective on the acrylic painting movement.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery




LECTURE


IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Thursday, November 5, 6:00–7:30 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

Roger Benjamin (Research Professor in Art History and Actus Foundation Lecturer in Aboriginal Art, University of Sydney)

Landscapes of Longing: Place and Image in the Early Papunya Boards

A guest curator of the exhibition, Benjamin explores how western art history grasps the role of memory, song, and design in these works.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery




All events are co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (TSOA), Anthropology and Religious Studies. Additional co-sponsorship by The Council for the Study of Disability, American Studies and SCA.
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

All events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Seating is first come, first served.
Persons with a disability are requested to call the Center for Media, Culture, and History in advance at 212.998.3759.
Funding has been provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.