Public Programs
Gallery Talk Performance
Films Lecture
Panel Discussion
Artist's Talk Conference
All public programs are open to the public and free of charge, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday Evening, November 17, 6:30 pm
Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East
Lynn Gumpert and Shelley Rice, Cocurators
Claude Cahun's "Heroines" Selections from Cahun's fifteen stream-of-consciousness monologues, written in the voices of major women of history and literature such as
the Virgin Mary, Sappho, Cinderella, Penelope, Delilah, and Helen of Troy. Martha Wilson, Founding Director, Franklin Furnace Archive; Diane Torr, founder of drag-king workshops; and Cathay Che, author and former talk show host
Seating is limited. For required reservations, call 212/998-8750 (Monday–Friday, 10 am–6 pm). Cosponsored by La Maison Française, New York University
Tuesday, December 7, 8:15 pm
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
Maya Deren, Director. Witch's Cradle (unfinished), 1943, 12 min.; Meshes of the Afternoon
(with Alexander Hammid), 1943, 14 min.; At Land, 1944, 14 min.; A Study in Choreography for Camera (with Talley Beatty), 1945, 3 min.; Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946, 15 min.;
Meditation on Violence, 1948, 13 min.; The Very Eye of Night, 1959, 15 min.; Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (assembled by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito from Deren's footage in 1977), 54 min.; all b/w. Total
running time: 130 min.
Friday, November 12, 6 pm
721 Broadway, Room 656
Cindy Sherman, Director. Office Killer, 1997, 81 min., color. With
Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Barbara Sukowa, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Cosponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies, with assistance
from the Department of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Friday, November 19, 6 pm
721 Broadway, Room 006
Maya Deren's films Meshes of the Afternoon, A Study in Choreography for Camera, Ritual in Transfigured Time, At Land, Meditation on Violence, and The Very Eye of Night will also be shown on Thursday, November 18, at 8 pm and 9:30 pm; and unedited footage shot by Maya Deren in Haiti will be screened on Saturday, November 20, at 4 pm, at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue. For details and ticket prices, call 212/505-5110.
Maya Deren's Films: Intersections of the Divine, Gage Averill, Associate Professor and Ethnomusicology Program Coordinator, Department of Music; Jonas Mekas, Artistic Director,
Anthology Film Archives; Annette Michelson, Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts; and Shelley Rice, Cocurator of Inverted Odysseys. Moderated by C. Daniel Dawson, Manager of
Public Programming, American Museum of Natural History. Cosponsored by the Center for Media, Culture and History, Faculty of Arts and Science; and the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
the Ethnographic, and the Avant-Garde
Friday, January 21, 4:30 pm
Main Building, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
Claude Cahun: Artist and Anti-Nazi Resistance Fighter
Tuesday, January 25, 6 pm
Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, 7 East Tenth Street
Katherine Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
Cosponsored by the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life,
New York University
Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat, an Iranian-born artist working in New York, will discuss
her recent photography, film, and video projects, which employ clothing and performance to explore relationships between text and image, men and women, East and West.
Cosponsored by the Department of Photography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Wednesday, December 8, 6:30 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, Room 102
Evaluating Today's Art Photography Participants include critics A.D. Coleman, Vicki Goldberg, Kate Linker,
Shelley Rice, and Carol Squiers; photographers Tina Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Abelardo Morell, Lorie Novak, and Andres Serrano; museum directors Lynn Gumpert, Willis Hartshorn, and Susana
Torruella Leval; curators Sandra Phillips, Brian Wallis, Deborah Willis, and Sylvia Wolf; gallerists Roland J. Augustine, Janet Borden, Bonni Benrubi, Peter MacGill, and Yancey Richardson; private consultant
Thea Westreich; and others. The conference director is Anne Hoy, former curator at the International Center of Photography. Organized by the Appraisal Studies Program in Fine and Decorative
Arts, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University Fee: $250 and $20 for registration. For complete schedule and to register, call 212/998-7130
Thursday Evening, Friday, and Saturday, December 2–4