Conference Calendar
The conference calendar is a directory in reverse chronological order of upcoming and recent conferences, symposia, and other meetings on topics relating to historical American art. For more information about an event, click the link to visit the website for the event or sponsoring institution or to send an email to the information contact.
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Upcoming Conferences
Words Matter!: The 20th Anniversary of the Eldredge Prize will bring together sixteen winners of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize, awarded annually to the author of the best book in the field of American art. Each speaker has chosen a word to muse upon — a word that is a critical term for the field or has galvanized his or her own scholarship. Speakers include: Sarah Burns, Wanda M. Corn, Jodi Hauptman, Elizabeth Johns, Caroline A. Jones, Anthony W. Lee, Margaretta M. Lovell, David M. Lubin, Richard Meyer, Angela L. Miller, Edward J. Nygren, Sally M. Promey, Sue Rainey, Alan Trachtenberg, Rebecca Zurier, and the 2008 prize winner JoAnne M. Mancini. The program on Friday, September 12, 2008, will begin at 2 p.m. The keynote lecture by JoAnne M. Mancini, author of Pre-Modernism, is scheduled for 5 p.m. The event will take place in the museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, which is located near the 8th and G Street NW entrance. A wine reception will follow the final lecture. No registration is required. For more information on the Eldredge Prize and on this event, including a schedule of events and the speakers’ selected words, visit http://www.americanart.si.edu/eldredge.
Seeing the City, Inscribing Identity—Describing a New Metropolis takes place on September 13, 2008, from 9 to 4 at the Smart Museum of Art, in conjunction with the exhibition “John Sloan’s New York.”
This interdisciplinary symposium examines the metropolis at the beginning of the twentieth century, with presentations on the art, literature, history, and architecture of Chicago and New York. Presenters include Wendy Greenhouse; independent scholar; Peter Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago; Neil Harris, University of Chicago; Carl Smith, Northwestern University; and Rebecca Zurrier, University of Michigan.
Admission is free; reservations are recommended. For more information, visit http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu.
Past Conferences
The Poetry of Vision: James Johnson Sweeney and the Twilight of Modernism is a pioneering appraisal of Sweeney’s influential career as a museum director, curator, and critic in the United States and Ireland. Co-sponsored by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and the Department of Art, Art History and Art Criticism, Stony Brook University, the symposium takes place on April 25, 2008, from 10am to 5pm at Stony Brook Manhattan, 401 Park Avenue South at 28th Street, New York City. Following welcoming remarks by Anita Moskowitz, Chair, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, and Helen Harrison, Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, presentations will be: “From Poet to Curator to Critic: James Johnson Sweeney, 1928-1968,” Ciar’n Bennett, 2007 Pollock-Krasner / Stony Brook Research Fellow; "Peggy Guggenheim and James Johnson Sweeney: The Making of the New York Avant-Garde," Karole P. B. Vail, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; “Sweeney from Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Connection and the Manhattan Arts Scene,” Maureen E. Mulvihill, Princeton Research Forum; “Space Explorer: James Johnson Sweeney in the Architecture of Modernism,” Raymund Ryan, Carnegie Museum of Art; “Transformational Years: James Johnson Sweeney's Tenure at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,” Lorraine A. Stuart, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The film “The Road to the Olmec Head” (b/w, 1963) will be screened, followed by the presentation “The Role of Rosc in the Internationalization of Irish Art," by Brenda Moore-McCann, independent art historian and critic. To register and for further information, visit http://www.pkhouse.org/ and click on Calendar.
Objects in Motion: Art & Material Culture Across Colonial North America, an international symposium at the University of Delaware, April 25-26, 2008, presents new research by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Mexico, Canada, and the United States investigating how ethnicity, geography, and commerce played crucial roles in the material life of early European North America. The program includes a keynote address by Clara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, papers by Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University; Marcel Moussette, Université Laval; Louis P. Nelson, University of Virginia; Alessandro Russo, Columbia University; JoAnne Mancini, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; Sophie White, University of Notre Dame; Martin Brückner, University of Delaware; Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Bernard L. Herman, University of Delaware; Elizabeth Hutchinson, Columbia University/Barnard College; and a closing address by Ruth B. Phillips, Carleton University. For more information, visit http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/objectsinmotion.html; for inquiries contact objectsinmotion@udel.edu or phone 302.831.8415.
The Fifth Annual American Art History Symposium at Yale will take place from 10:00am to 5:00pm on April 26, 2008, on Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut. No registration is required and all are welcome to attend. The symposium will consist of two panels of four graduate student papers each, followed by our keynote speaker, Rachel DeLue, Princeton University. The papers will be considered in a framework that examines the role of a distinctly American art history within the context of globalization, the current state of the field, and possible new directions for the study of American art. Presentations include Jessica Horton, University of Rochester: "Imagine all the Crossers"; Nika Elder, Princeton University: "Embodied Fabrications: Dress and Race in Lorna Simpson's 'Guarded Conditions'"; Rhonda Goodman, Stanford University: "The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in 19th Century North America"; Doug Singsen, CUNY: "Art Spiegelman's 'Jack Cole and Plastic Man': Comics Stretched to Its Limits"; Gabrielle Gopinath, Yale University: "Bruce Nauman, Astral Projection, and the Aptotic Gesture"; Godfre Leung, Rochester University: "The Yes Men, Cosmopolitan Concern, and the New American Left"; Alexandra Davis, University of Pennsylvania: "Rotting on the Shore: East-West Exchange as Personal Metaphor"; Matthew Palczynski, Temple University: "Thomas Eakins and Edouard Manet: Rethinking an American Icon." For further information, contact Ash Anderson or Mary Dailey Pattee at www.americanist.symposium@gmail.com.
The Politics of Display, A Symposium in Honor of Neil Harris takes place on May 3, 2008, at the University of Chicago. The symposium will explore aspects of American culture central to the wide-ranging scholarly interests of Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History and Art History at the University of Chicago. The event is free but attendees must preregister. Speakers include Daniel Bluestone, University of Virginia; Michele H. Bogart, Stony Brook University; Annie Cohen-Solal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Hanna Holborn Gray, University of Chicago; Thomas Hines, University of California, Los Angeles; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University; T. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University; Sally M. Promey, Yale University; and Nicholas Yablon, University of Iowa. For further information, visit http://history.uchicago.edu/harrissymposium/.
Erica Hirschler will give a public lecture entitled Winslow Homer and French Painting in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 8, 2008, at 6pm. For details, visit http://www.artic.edu/aic/calendar.
Continuing the Dialogue: Environmental Destiny/Environmental Responsibility is an all-day symposium being held at the Simpson Lecture Hall of Loyola University Museum of Art on Friday, May 16, 2008. Hosted by the museum and funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this symposium will feature lectures by scholars and specialists from a host of academic disciplines and professional fields ranging from art history to environmental ethics, from literature and poetry to environmental activism. Speakers will key their lectures to one of the exhibition's themes: bounty, manifest destiny, and manifest responsibility. Speakers include Alan Braddock, Peter Brownlee, William French, John Gatta, Benjamin Goluboff, Michael Hogue, and Adam Schwerner. For more details, visit http://www.luc.edu/luma. To reserve, email luma@luc.edu or phone 312.915.7630.
The Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society and the Society’s Program in the History of the Book in American Culture are sponsoring a conference in Worcester, Massachusetts, on November 14 and 15, 2008, on Home, School, Play, Work: The Visual and Textual Worlds of Children. The call for papers elicited over seventy proposals, so a second conference, in collaboration with the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University, will be offered in early February 2009. Papers focus on the intersection of text and images with children in their books, school, and domestic spaces, at work, and in public spaces. Among the genres of print being discussed are games, maps, ephemera, paintings, prints, books, periodicals, and educational materials. Further information about this conference may be found on the AAS website at http://www.americanantiquarian.org/.
In conjunction with the exhibition ”Portrait of a Lady: American Paintings and Photographs in France” at the Musèe d’Art Amèricain Giverny, Sarah Burns, Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University, will give a public lecture entitled Fashioning the Transatlantic Woman at the museum on July 6, 2008. For more information, contact Veerle Thielemans at 33 (0)2 32 51 91 69 or v.thielemans@maag.org.
The Fifth Annual American Art History Symposium at Yale takes place from 10 to 5 on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at Linsley-Chittenden Hall on Yale's campus in New Haven (63 High Street between Chapel and Elm).The keynote speaker will be Rachel DeLue, Princeton University. Presenters include: Jessica Horton, University of Rochester: "Imagine all the Crossers"; Nika Elder, Princeton University: "Embodied Fabrications: Dress and Race in Lorna Simpson's 'Guarded Conditions'"; Rhonda Goodman, Stanford University: "The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in 19th Century North America"; Doug Singsen, CUNY: "Art Spiegelman's 'Jack Cole and Plastic Man': Comics Stretched to Its Limits"; Gabrielle Gopinath, Yale University: "Bruce Nauman, Astral Projection, and the Aptotic Gesture"; Godfre Leung, Rochester University: "The Yes Men, Cosmopolitan Concern, and the New American Left"; Alexandra Davis, University of Pennsylvania: "Rotting on the Shore: East-West Exchange as Personal Metaphor"; and Matthew Palczynski, Temple University: "Thomas Eakins and Edouard Manet: Rethinking an American Icon." No registration is required, and all are welcome to attend. For further information, please contact Ash Anderson or Mary Dailey Pattee at americanist.symposium@gmail.com.
Fields of Vision: The Material and Visual Culture of New England, 1600-1830 takes place November 9-10, 2007, and is organized by the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Given the explosion of scholarship in cultural history over the past twenty-five years, what now is the place of objects in the study of the past? What role do material and visual culture studies play in scholarly conversations that range over topics as diverse as race, sexuality, gender, nationalism, ethnicity, power, and global interaction? In turn, in the face of increasingly trans-national scholarship in early America what can we gain from attention paid to a single region and its artifacts? Presenters and participants in the conference will discuss these and other questions as a way of rethinking not just the material and visual world of early New England, but also the techniques by which we can uncover meaning in historic objects and images. For more information, visit americanantiquarian.org/fieldsofvision.htm
The F-Word: Reclaiming and Redefining Feminism in the Visual Arts takes place on October 26, 2007, at 8:30am, at Rutgers University’s Alexander Library Teleconference/Lecture Hall. Speakers include Joan Marter, Rutgers University; Kristine Stiles, Duke University; Abby van Slyck, Connecticut College; Despina Stratigakos, State University of New York, Buffalo; Andres Zervigon, Rutgers University; Coco Fusco, artist; Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University; Elin Diamond, Rutgers University; Anna Chave, City University of New York; Aviva Rahmani, artist; Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University. Registration is required but is free and open to all. Pre-registration by October 19 is required to join the speakers and organizers for a catered lunch held on-site, at a cost of $10. To register, visit rufeminist@gmail.com or http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/events/2007/fword/.
Building a Legacy: Collecting American Paintings for Kansas City: A Symposium in Honor of Crosby and Bebe Kemper is the subject of a symposium at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City on October 20, 2007. Speakers and topics include: Carrie Rebora Barratt, Metropolitan Museum of Art: “All in the Family: John Singleton Copley Paints the Barretts”; Sarah Burns, Indiana University: “Nervous Nostalgia in the 1870s: Eastman Johnson and Winslow Homer”; Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame: “Thomas Hart Benton's National Imaginary”; Kathleen Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art: “Thomas Eakins’ Monsignor James P. Turner in Perspective”; Erica Hirshler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: “Public and Private: John Singer Sargent’s Portraits”; Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art: “From the Height of Fame to the Mount of Olives: Frederic Church in the Holy Land”; Bruce Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Courting Trouble: William Sidney Mount’s Winding Up.” For additional information and event registration, visit http://www.nelson-atkins.org/ or contact the Department of American Art at jnauss@nelson-atkins.org or by calling 816.751.1335. The cost of attendance is $20.
The 19th Southwest Art History Conference will be held on October 10-12, 2007, at the historic Mabel Dodge Lujan House in Taos, New Mexico. Fourteen papers organized in four sessions by scholars from all over the country will explore individual artists (inclding George DeForest Brush, Minerva Teichert, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Dasburg, John Sloan, Woody Crumbo, and Acee Blue Eagle), as well as broad themes and topics relating to the American West and Southwest (including the Taos Society of Artists, sepulchral monuments, and ledger art). Presenters include Breanne Robertson, University of Maryland; Angela S. George, University of Maryland; John Ott, James Madison University; Marian Wardle, Brigham Young University; Anne Allbright, University of Central Oklahoma; Helen A. Harrison, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center; Michael R. Freeman, Fort Lewis College; Katharine Martinez, Harvard University; Annette Stott, University of Denver; Jonathan F. Walz, University of Maryland; Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, University of Delaware; Alan C. Braddock, emple University; Bill Anthes, Pitzer College; and Mark White Oklahoma State University. For more information, contact Betsy Fahlman at fahlman@asu.edu.
American Artists in Munich: Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes takes place October 9-11, 2007, at the Amerikahaus München, Munich, Germany. This international colloquium, co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art, will focus on the attraction of the self-proclaimed "Kunststadt"/City of the Art(s)" for American artists between 1850 and World War I. The Akademie der Bildenden Künste München--a world renowned institution for higher artistic education, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century, and second only to Paris--will celebrate its bicentenary in 2008. Who came, when, and why? How did the Munich experience shape the later careers of visiting artists? Speakers will look what influenced artists’ decisions on where to study, including such factors as the attractiveness of a city and its art institutions and students’ own cultural backgrounds. By also considering figures that traveled to the Academy after the peak of its success in the years 1878-90, this history will be extended well into the twentieth century. The official language of the conference is English. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register or to obtain more information, email americanartists@zikg.eu.
The interdisciplinary symposium Aaron Douglas and the Arts of the Harlem Renaissance, held Sept. 28-29, 2007, at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, explores the complex constellation of visual and performing artists, writers, and political and creative thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, and Douglas's place within it. For more information, contact spencerart@ku.edu.
The American West: Tracing the Genesis of a Myth, a one-day international conference on the iconography invented for representing the West in American fine arts and visual culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, will be held on September 28, 2007, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen. This public event will be accompanied by a university seminar Survey Photography of the American West at the University of Paris 7 on Sept. 29 for students enrolled in the masters degree in American studies, with invited speakers from the US and Europe. The conference and seminar will highlight two major exhibitions taking place simultaneously at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen (Mythologie de l’Ouest) and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (Images of the West: Survey Photographs in French Collections, 1860-1880: see exhibition listings). Intended to unite the two exhibitions, this event will provide a critical context for understanding the formation of a repertoire of mythical images that came to represent the American West in 19th-century photography and the pictorial arts and migrated to other artistic media such as cinema in the 20th century. For more information, contact Veerle Thielemans at 33 (0)2 32 51 91 69 or v.thielemans@maag.org.
The Archives of American Art and CUNY's Ph.D. Program in Art History sponsors a symposium on Artists in Their Studios on September 8, 2007, from 9am to 4:30pm at the City University of New York's Graduate Center in New York. For program details and ticket information, visit http://www.aaa.si.edu/news/symposium.cfm.
The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Centenary Symposium and Film Premiere takes place on September 7, 2007, from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and F streets NW, McEvoy Auditorium. This symposium will re-examine the influence and importance of one of America’s greatest sculptors, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848−1907). A series of lectures will begin at 1:30pm followed at 5pm by the Washington premiere of the new film “Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture” (2007), directed by Paul Sanderson and produced by the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site and the Trustees of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial. A reception will follow the film at 6:30pm. No registration is required for this event. For more information, visit our web page at AmericanArt.si.edu/2007_symposium or contact SAAMSymposium@si.edu; (202) 633-8353. Individual presentations include: “An Introduction to Smithsonian Collections” by George Gurney, deputy chief curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum; “Voices from Across the Sea: The European Associates of Augustus Saint-Gaudens” by Henry J. Duffy, curator and chief of cultural resources, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site; “Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Angels of Grief” by Cynthia Mills, historian, Smithsonian American Art Museum; “After Saint-Gaudens: Casts, Memories and Legacies” by Thayer Tolles, associate curator of American paintings and sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Conservation of the Shaw Memorial: The Long Journey” by Shelley Sturman, head of object conservation, National Gallery of Art. Erika Doss, chair of the American studies department at the University of Notre Dame, will moderate a panel discussion following the presentations. The public is encouraged to take time before or after the symposium to explore the thirteen sculptures by Saint-Gaudens on display in the museum’s permanent collection galleries on the second floor and in the Luce Foundation Center.
Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter Study Day takes place at the High Museum in Atlanta, June 4, 2007. This private viewing and in-depth discussion of Beaux’s work in the High Museum, moderated by Kevin Sharp, is designed to encourage informal dialogue between academics, curators, collectors, and aficionados of American art. Space is limited: for more information phone 404.733.4464 or email Virginia.Shearer@woodruffcenter.org.
Narratives of American Art, a two-and-a-half-day international conference devoted to master narratives used in American art scholarship and exhibitions, takes place in Berlin May 24-26, 2007. Organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie University, Berlin, with support from the German Association for American Studies, this conference brings together American and European scholars of art history and cultural history who will discuss five different narratives that have shaped our perception of art in the US over time: American exceptionalism, high/ low, visual culture, multiculturalism, and transnationalism. Speakers include: Hans Belting, Winfried Fluck, John Davis, Alan Wallach, Jochen Wierich, Michele Bogart, Michael Leja, Laura Bieger, Edyta Frelik, Harald Klinke, Sarah Burns, Ursula Frohne, Andrew Hemingway, Angela Miller, Sieglinde Lemke, Susanne Scharf, Jennifer Raab, Bart Keeton, and Peter Schneck. The conference also includes a public debate, Curating American Art in a Transnational Context, featuring W. J.T. Mitchell, Stephan Koja, Kathleen Adler, Winfried Fluck, and Angela Miller. For more information email kultur@zedat.fu-belin.de, visit jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/culture/narrative_conf.html, or contact Veerle Thielemans at 33 (0)2 32 51 91 69 or v.thielemans@maag.org.
American Views, a Symposium in Honor of Prof. John Wilmerding takes place May 5, 2007, at Princeton University. Wilmerding’s 19 years of teaching at Princeton, leadership at numerous arts institutions, and groundbreaking scholarship constitute an unparalleled contribution to the field of American art history. Symposium speakers will evoke many of the topics and themes of Professor Wilmerding’s research and writing, from landscape painting to the art and culture of the 1960s, and will highlight the depth and breadth of his scholarly work as well its lasting significance. Speakers include Michael Gaudio, Franklin Kelly, H. Daniel Peck, Mark Stevens, Cécile Whiting, Jennifer Roberts, and Michael Kammen. The registration deadline is Apr. 20, 2007. Phone 609.258.1741; fax 609.258.46.
Entre Barbizon et Giverny: territoires du paysage moderne (Between Fontainebleau and Giverny: Territories of Modern Landscape Painting) is a two-day symposium at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on Apr. 27-28, linking two major exhibitions centered on the international artists’ colonies of Barbizon and Giverny: Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915, at MAAG (see exhibition listings), and La Forêt de Fontainebleau, un atelier grandeur nature (Musée d’Orsay, through May 13, 2007). The symposium explores the evolution of 19th-century landscape painting in relation to notions of territory, cultural heritage, and national schools. In the years between the Barbizon School and Claude Monet’s final artistic productions, the representation of the French landscape underwent profound change. Without denying its attachment to the national soil, landscape painting presented a new image of France, one that redefined the nation’s natural frontiers, symbolic heritage, and values. Foreign artists working in France chose to conform to or defy the iconography structuring these representations of the French landscape and its different regions. This symposium will reconsider the dialogue between American and French artistic traditions from the perspectives of cultural geography and political history and allow for new insights into the relationship between European and American landscape painting and the phenomenon of the 19th-century artists’ colony. For more information, visit musee-orsay.fr, maag.org, or terraamericanart.org, or contact Veerle Thielemans at 33 (0)2 32 51 91 69 or v.thielemans@maag.org.
Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition is a symposium taking place at Columbia College Chicago Apr. 20-21, 2007. National and international scholars and artists will come together to examine how Bearden, in his thinking and practice, was aligned with but also challenged many of the traditions of his day. Presenters include Kobena Mercer, Emma Amos, Courtney J. Martin, Melvin Edwards, William T. Williams, Amy Mooney, Helen Shannon, Robert O'Meally, Geoffrey Jacques, Kym Pinder, Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, and Raél Jero Salley. To register, visit colum.edu/romarebearden.
American Art Histories and Transdisciplinary Practices takes place Apr. 19-21 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Speakers will explore the problem of redefining American art history in response to developments in hemispheric and global studies, and consider the importance of artistic production beyond the borders of the United States and of hyphenated ethnic groups (African American, Latin American, etc.) within these borders to understanding and defining American art. Janet Berlo will offer a keynote address; conference participants include Sarah Burns, Darby English, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Anthony Lee, Katherine Manthorne, Angela Miller, Gerardo Mosquera, and Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw. Advance registration is recommended. For registration and further information visit art.uiuc.edu/projects/mellonconference/AmericanArtHistories.htm.
The symposium The World of Asher B. Durand: The Artist in Antebellum New York will be presented in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition of the same title and the Brooklyn Museum’s retrospective Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (see exhibition listings) on Apr. 14, 2007. The symposium will illuminate a broad range of topics surrounding Durand’s work and New York’s art world in the mid-19th century. Linda S. Ferber will moderate a panel of six speakers including Barbara Novak, Kevin J. Avery, Rebecca Bedell, Teresa A. Carbone, Barbara Dayer Gallati, and Christine I. Oaklander. Visit nyhistory.org for details or phone 212.868.4444 for tickets and information.
The Art and Life of Lee Krasner: Recollections, Cultural Context, and New Perspectives takes place Apr. 12-13, 2007, at Stony Brook Manhattan, 401 Park Avenue South, New York. The symposium is organized by Gail Levin and sponsored by the Pollock-Krasner/Stony Brook Foundation. Speakers will be Tina Dickey, Ann Gibson, Daniel Haxall, Robert Hobbs, Richard Howard, Gail Levin, Joan Marter, and Barbara Rose. There will also be a panel of Lee's friends and relatives: Audrey Flack, B.H. Friedman, Rusty Kanokogi, Jason McCoy, Donald McKinney, Betsy Miller, Eleanor Munro, Cindy Nemser, and Terence Netter. A program and registration form are available at pkhouse.org/Calendar. For details, phone 631.324.4929 or email hharrison@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
The Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center will sponsor a day-long symposium entitled New York Art Worlds: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. It will be held in the Graduate Center's Martin E.Segal Theatre at 365 Fifth Ave., New York, from 9 to 5 on February 13, 2007. Lectures and panel discussions byhistorians, critics, and artists will consider the role of New York City as a national and international artistic center from the 19th century to the present. Admission is free of charge. For further information contact arthistory@gc.cuny.edu.
Americans in Paris, 1860-1900 is the subject of a two-part symposium that takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 30 and December 3, 2006, in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition of the same title. Speakers H. Barbara Weinberg, Adam Gopnik, Linda Merrill, Philip Nord, Anne Higonnet, Hilary Ballon, Marc Simpson, Richard J. Powell, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Susan G. Larkin, and William H. Gerdts will examine why Paris was a magnet for American artists, what they found there and how they responded to it, and the lessons they brought back to the United States. For more information, phone 212.396.5460 or email lectures@metmuseum.org.
The Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Conference takes place at the Wyndham Hotel in Baltimore,October 27-29, 2006. Papers will be given in more than 40 interdisciplinary areas of study. For more information, email Rett Lorance at llorance@earthlink.net or consult The Gazette at wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.
