Spring 2016
February
2/3 Art Fairs: Matthew Deleget in conversation with Helen Toomer, Director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
2/10 The Nomination Granting Process: Allison Hawkins and Shervone Neckles of the Joan Mitchell Foundation in conversation with Matthew Deleget.
2/17 On Pedagogy and Collaboration: Tim Doud and Zoë Charlton in conversation with Sharon Louden
2/24 The Director and the Curator: Harry Philbrick and Jodi Throckmorton from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia in conversation with Sharon Louden
2/29 Rachel Hovnanian
March
3/2 The Collector: Laura Skoler in conversation with Sharon Louden, collector and board member of the New Museum
3/4 Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band
April
4/22 Ramiro Gomez: artist talk and book signing
Fall 2015
September
9/9 Nancy Davidson
9/16 Carrara Residency Artsists in Conversation
9/25 Martin Eder
9/30 Rob Colvin
October
10/7 Nicole Eisenman
10/28 Ann Chernow
November
11/6 Evan Penny
11/11 Restoring Works by Living Artists: Laura Murphy Doyle, Chubb
11/13 Linden Fredrick
11/18 Scott Avett with Eric Fischl
11/20 Katherine Manthorne: Boundless Reality
Fall 2014
September
9/17 Judy Fox & Joel Shapiro The Presence of Abstraction
9/24 Kehinde Wiley
October
10/22 Stephen Hannock
10/29 Jeff Bergman & Erik Hougen Multiple States: Contemporary Printmaking
10/30 Jonas Burgert
November
11/05 Richard Dupont
11/12 Kara Rooney in conversation with Sue Scott Upending the 20%
11/19 Andres Serrano– Photography, Art and Politics
December
12/03 E.V. Day
Fall 2013
September
9/11 Walton Ford
9/18 Kathy Ruttenberg
9/25 Judy Glantzman
October
10/16 Alexis Rockman
10/23 Donald Baechler in conversation with Glenn O’Brien
10/30 Nina Chanel
November
11/06 Phillip Pearlstein in conversation with Patterson Sims
11/15 Anne Harris
11/20 Peter Saul
Fall 2012
September
9/12 Judy Fox (Watch)
9/19 Mike Cockrill
9/26 Alex Kanevsky
October
10/3 Adam Gopnik – Writer, Cultural Critic for The New Yorker.
10/17 Jocelyn Hobbie
10/24 Michele C. Cone – Writer, Art Critic, Historian and Author
10/31 Walton Ford
November
11/7 Sue Coe – Artist and Activist
11/14 Drawing Roundtable: John Jacobsmeyer in conversation with Dawn Clements and Graham Guerra and Steve Mumford.
11/28 Thomas Woodruff
December
12/5 Dana Schutz
12/12 Robert Taplin
Fall 2011
September
09/14 Jerry Kearns
09/21 Rona Pondick
09/28 Laurie Hogin
October
10/05 Robert Yarber
10/12 Carroll Dunham
10/21 Trenton Doyle Hancock
10/26 Mark Greenwold
November
11/02 Beverly McIver
11/09 Robin Williams
11/16 Carlo McCormick & Eric White
11/30 Barbara Pollack
December
12/07 Michael Ferris Jr
12/14 Duncan Hannah
Fall 2010
Isabelle Bonzom
Richard Stipl
Hilary Harkness
Wei Dong
Donald Kuspit – “The Real In Caravaggio’s Realism”
Alexi Worth
Reading: Odd Nerdrum’s play, “MARLOWE”, directed by DeLisa M. White
Ross Bleckner
Lisa Dennison – Chairperson, Sotheby’s North and South America
Ken Currie
Pablo Helguera – Artist and Writer, “The Estheticist”
Mia Brownell
Merrill Falkenberg – Curator
Mark Mennin – Artist, on “Messerschmidt: An Accidental Visionary”
David Salle
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Fall 2009
Why talk art? – Introduction to series with Catherine Howe, Peter drake, Mark Mennin, and Nina Levent
Robert Taplin – Sculptor, Writer – “Formalism and Presence”
Deborah Kass – Artist’s Talk
The New Revolutionary Realism – A conversation with Donald Kuspit
Barkley Hendricks – Artist’s Talk
Micah Ganske – Artist’s Talk
Will Cotton – Artist’s Talk
Mark Mennen – Sculptor, “American Renaissance Garden: a classical mid-life crisis”
Susanna Coffey – Artist’s Talk
David Cohen – Art critic, Curator, “Their Blood in our Veins: School of London painting and the Old Masters”
Epic Painting – a round table discussion with Julie Heffernan, Ali Banisadr, and Catherine Howe
Vincent Desiderio – Artist’s Talk
Fall 2008
Natalie Frank – Artist’s Talk
Crispin Sartwell – “The Politics of Pleasure: Beauty, Truth, and Totalitarianism in Modern Art”
Eleanor Heartney – “Art Today – Tales of plastic surgery, genetically altered rabbits, and other acts of art”
Klaus Ottmann – “What is Art?”
Barry Schwabsky – “Object or Project? A Critic’s Reflections on the Ontology of Art”
Anna-Louise Kratzsch – Curator’s talk: “New German Figurative Painting”
Jansson Stegner – Artist’s Talk
Lesley Dill – Artist’s Talk
Thomas Woodruff – Artist’s Talk
Terrie Sultan – Director, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
Jerome Witkin – Artist’s Talk
Jonas Burgert – Artist’s Talk
Catherine Howe – “Ecstasy and Agony- art and madness in the studio”
David Altmejd – Artist’s Talk
Fall 2007
Julie Heffernan – Artist’s Talk
Tony Scherman – Artist’s Talk
Whitfield Lovell – Artist’s Talk
Judith Shea – Artist’s Talk
William Beckman – Artist’s Talk
Nicola Verlato – Artist’s Talk
Patrick Conners – “Pictorial Space in Western Illusionistic Art”
Judith Schaecter – Artist’s Talk
Aaron Spangler – Artist’s Talk
Eric Fischl – “Death of Painting”
Alan Feltus & Lani Irwin – Artists’ Talk
Mia Fineman – “Our Lady of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich & Other Artful Apparitions”
“You Can’t Go Home Again” – Round-table discussion with Fellows of the Academy from the “Homecoming” Exhibition, moderated by Catherine Howe.