GALLERY TALKS

Mapping Sitting, Wednesday, February 9, 6:30 pm, Grey Art Gallery, NYU
100 Washington Square East

With Walid Raad, co-curator/artist of Mapping Sitting and Assistant Professor,
School of Art, The Cooper Union, and Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery.

 Multiple Identities, Wednesday, February 16, 6:30 pm, Grey Art Gallery, NYU
100 Washington Square East

With Rory O’Dea, Graduate Assistant, Grey Art Gallery, and Ph.D. Candidate,
NYU Institute of Fine Arts.

Footnotes: Visiting Artist Akram Zaatari
Wednesday, January 19, 7:30 pm, The Cooper Union, School of Art, 207 Hewitt Building, 41 Cooper Square

Lecture, slideshow, and reading by videomaker Akram Zaatari, co-curator/artist of Mapping Sitting and co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation.

Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union, School of Art, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. For information,
call 212/998-6780.

Artists Talk—Islamic Visual Culture Series

Friday, January 21, 4 pm, Kevorkian Center, Screening Room, 50 Washington Square South
(at Sullivan Street)

Conversation between Mapping Sitting co-curators/artists Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for Media, Culture and History; Kevorkian Center; and Grey Art Gallery. For more information, call 212/998-6780.

This Day by Akram Zaatari: Film Screening and Dialogue
Saturday, January 22, 6 pm, Cantor Center, 36 East 8^th Street (near University Place)

Videomaker Akram Zaatari, co-curator/artist of Mapping Sitting, will introduce his film This Day (2003,   86 min.) and engage in discussion with the audience.

Presented by ArteEast and NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, and the Grey Art Gallery. Tickets: General admission $9; student and senior citizen admission $7. For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit www.arteeast.org or call 718/832-6564.

Inside-Out, Three Variations on Photographic Portraiture:
Julia Margaret Cameron, Irving Penn, and Ryan McGinley
Thursday, February 24, 6:30 pm, Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

Lecture by Sylvia Wolf, Adjunct Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Adjunct Instructor, Department of Photography and Imaging.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA), and Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-1930 or photo.tsoa@nyu.edu.

Recycling the Archive: When Private Goes Public
Monday, March 7, 7 pm, Silver Center, room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

Panel discussion with Barry Flood, NYU Department of Fine Arts; Lorie Novak, NYU Department of Photography and Imaging, artist and creator of collectedvisions.net; and Walid Raad. Moderated by Shelley Rice, NYU Department of Photography and Imaging, and Department of Fine Arts.

Co-sponsored by the NYU’s Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA); Department of Fine Arts; Fine Arts Society; Center for Media, Culture and History; Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Program in Archival Management and Historical Editing, Department of History; and Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-1930 or photo.tsoa@nyu.edu.

When Artist Meets Critic: A Dialogue
Monday, March 28, 6:30 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South (at Sullivan Street)

Conversation between Walid Raad, Vera List Center Fellow, and Janet Kaplan, Professor of Art, Moore College of Art and Design, and author of the essay on Walid Raad/The Atlas Group recently published in Art in America.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Kevorkian Center and Center for Media, Culture and History; the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School; and the Grey Art Gallery. For information, call 212/998-6780.