Category Archives: Lectures

Kay Takeda Senior Director of Artist Programs, Joan Mitchell Foundation The financial lives of artists can be complex in terms of employment, compensation, and the realities of navigating the nonprofit and for-profit world, each with its own language and expectations. This conversation will focus on a few key areas of personal finance that can make a difference in how artists… Read More

Tony Matelli was born in 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, and received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995. Matelli has exhibited widely, mounting solo and group exhibitions at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1, The Davis Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, ILLUMInations at The Venice Biennale, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Palais de Tokyo, and The High Line. The artist… Read More

Bill Powers owns Half Gallery in New York. He is the author of several books, including What We Lose in Flowers . . . (Karma, 2012) and Interviews with Artists (Gagosian, 2013). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, GQ Style, Purple Fashion, and the Wall Street Journal.   Michael Kagan lives and works in Brooklyn. He holds… Read More

Fox received her BA from Yale University and trained in sculpture at Skowhegan School and the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. She received an MA in Art History and Conservation from the Institute of Fine Art at NYU. She has participated in numerous private and public exhibitions around the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at PPOW (New… Read More

Eminent critical theorist Donald Kuspit in conversation with Provost Peter Drake, discusses his life in the arts, his training as a psychoanalyst and developments in the progressive figurative and representational art world. Donald Kuspit is one of America’s most distinguished art critics. In 1983 he received the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the… Read More

  Heather Darcy Bhandari is an independent curator and co-founder of The Remix (a project-based curatorial team), an adjunct lecturer at Brown University, and a consultant to several for-profit and nonprofit arts institutions. She is also the Creative Director of Art World Conference, a new professional development conference for visual artists. The second edition of her book, ART/WORK, was published by… Read More

Julia Kodl is a Los Angeles based concept artist and an art lead at Dreamscape Immersive where she makes the content for story-based, full-roam virtual reality (VR) experiences. Using real-time motion capture technology, full body mapping, virtual reality headsets, and real-life room-scale stage sets, it enables users to move untethered in a virtual environment and interact with both physical and… Read More

Seph Rodney was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in New York City. He has an English degree from LIU, Brooklyn, a studio art MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a PhD in museum studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is an editor for the Hyperallergic blog, writing about contemporary art and related… Read More