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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Documenting
Domesticity: Diane Arbus in Context NYU’s Linda Gordon, professor of history, and Judith Stacey, professor of sociology and gender and sexuality studies, will discuss Diane Arbus’s approach to family albums in its sociocultural context: family practices, politics, ideologies, and the notion of “authenticity” in the US in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (GSAS), the Program in American Studies (GSAS), and the Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/992-9541 or gender.sexuality@nyu.edu
Facing Arbus: A
Conversation Suddenly, again, she is everywhere—exhibitions on both coasts; her haunting, beguiling, unsettling imagery staring out, seemingly, from the pages of every journal—yet it is as if Diane Arbus had never left, so deeply has her vision bored its way into our own. On a cold winter’s eve, essayists Francine Prose and Arthur Lubow, photographer Tina Barney, and painter Alex Katz will endeavor to stare back. Moderated by Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Organized by the New York Institute for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-2100
The Art of Curating
Photography: A Conversation John Szarkowski, director emeritus of photography, Museum of Modern Art, and Robert Storr, former curator of contemporary art at MoMA and now a professor at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, will discuss the challenges and rewards of curating photography exhibitions, including Szarkowski’s groundbreaking New Documents show of 1967 and his 1972 retrospective of Diane Arbus’s work. Co-sponsored by the Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA), the Institute of Fine Arts (GSAS), the Department of Art and Art Professions (Steinhardt), the Program in Museum Studies (GSAS), the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and the Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-1930 or photo.tsoa@nyu.edu
Reflections: Fashion,
Photography, and Modernism in the 1960s In this panel discussion, Patricia Johnston, professor of art history, Salem State College, will examine the impact of modernist theory, feminism, and other social trends on both fine and applied photography of the 1960s; Tony Vaccaro, photographer, will present his now-famous photographs of Marimekko fashions; and Anthony W. Lee, co-curator of Diane Arbus: Family Albums and associate professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College, will consider whether Arbus’s images of New York subcultures were shaped by her work for the fashion magazines, and will address the relationship between the modern, the grotesque, and the handsome in her art. Organized by the Bard Graduate Center in collaboration with the Grey Art Gallery, and offered in conjunction with Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture, on view at the Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street, until February 15, 2004. Program admission: $25 general, $17 students and seniors, free with current NYU i.d. Information and reservations: 212/501-3011 or programs@bgc.bard.edu Of Related Interest
When the Cobbling Began:
Photography and Chinese Shoemakers
Friday, February 6, 6 pm In 1870, seventy-five Chinese men arrived in a New England factory town to work on the assembly lines. They remained ten years, but today there is hardly a trace of their existence--except for the nearly one hundred photographs taken during their stay. Through these images, Anthony W. Lee, co-curator of Diane Arbus: Family Albums, will construct a past for an early Chinese American community and explore these men’s impact on the industrializing world around them. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute (CAS), and the Grey Art Gallery. RSVP by February 3: 212/992-9653 or apa.rsvp@nyu.edu
Foraging Through
Archives: Photo/Bio/graphy In this forum, photography experts will examine the photographic archive as a focal point of art-historical research. They will consider the joys and sorrows of digging through archival material: what one finds, what one doesn’t, what gets discovered, what is denied. Among other topics, Sarah Greenough, National Gallery of Art, will describe her experiences working with personal materials of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe; Sandra Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the institutional archives of the Vatican; Jeff Rosenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the negatives, papers, and collection of Walker Evans. Moderated by Shelley Rice, Department of Photography and Imaging and Department of Fine Arts, who will talk about the Donation Jacques-Henri Lartigue in Paris. First in a series of panels about the changing role and nature of The Archive in contemporary life. Organized by the Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA), and co-sponsored by the Program in Archival Management and Historical Editing, Department of History (GSAS); the Department of Fine Arts (CAS); the Fine Arts Society; La Maison Française; and the Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-1930 or photo.tsoa@nyu.edu
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