In conjunction with the opening of its newest exhibition Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, the exhibition curator and former director general of the National Institute of the History of Art in Paris.
The Clark Art Institute presents a virtual talk by Deborah Willis, author of The Black Civil War Soldier, exploring the crucial role of photography in shaping African American narratives of the Civil War.
Sarah Hamill (Sarah Lawrence College), Michael Ann Holly Fellow in the Clark's Research and Academic Program , considers the curiously underexamined work of the 1970s: artist Mary Miss’s Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys (1978), which is situated on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art. Rosalind Krauss opened her landmark 1979 essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” with the work, but it has received scant attention since.
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Vassar College), the Research and Academic Program's Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellow presents a talk on the role of artists in addressing concerns about the vulnerability of the population of the poor communities living along the banks of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo in the face of violent political repression, rampant environmental pollution, and the impacts of climate change.
Small is working on a book that takes as its point of departure the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s concept of “the organic line.” Small suggests that Lygia Clark’s concept regarding this line compels us to reconsider fundamental terms such as medium, mark, and edge, while providing a model for transforming linear and comparative models of art history into topological formations. These formations, in turn, mutually deform the “center” and the “periphery.”
