Category Archives: Lectures

Larry Ossei-Mensah, MOCAD’s Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring such artist as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan… Read More

Mark Rosen is the Associate Director of Marketing at Artsy, overseeing social media and contributing to consumer marketing strategy for the world’s largest online database of contemporary art. Based in New York City, he and his team regularly engage over 3.5 million followers across platforms and develop strategies to acquire and retain consumers on Artsy.net. Lecture Video   www.artsy.net /… Read More

Paul Anthony Smith (b. Jamaica, 1988) creates paintings and unique picotages on pigment prints that explore the artist’s autobiography, as well as issues of identity within the African diaspora. Referencing both W.E.B. Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness and Franz Fanon’s theory of diasporic cultural confusions caused by colonialism, Smith alludes to African rituals, tribal masks, and scarification to obscure and… Read More

Ledelle Moe was born in Durban, South Africa in 1971. She studied sculpture there at Technikon Natal and graduated in 1993. Active in the local art community, Moe was one of the founding members of the FLAT Gallery, an artist initiative and alternative space in Durban. A travel grant in 1994 took her to the United States where she embarked… Read More

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