EventsThe New Social Environment#235

Art School Confidential, Part 2

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Vincent Katz, Christine Kuan, Nato Thompson, and Robert Storr will discuss the history and future of art schools and possible alternatives. The conversation will be led by Dore Bowen. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Meilani Clay.

In this Talk

Vincent Katz

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Vincent Katz is the author of the poetry collections Daffodil, Broadway for Paul, Southness, and Swimming Home, among others, and he has published collaborative poems with Anne Waldman and Andrei Codrescu. He translated the complete poems of Sextus Propertius and has translated the Theogony and Works and Days of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. 

Christine Kuan

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CEO of Sotheby’s Institute of Art & Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art-New York. Prior to this, Kuan was Chief Curator and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Artsy. She has also served as Chief Curatorial Officer and Vice President of External Affairs at Artstor, and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press. In addition, Kuan has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Asian Art, and has taught at The University of Iowa, Peking University, and Rutgers University. She has lectured and published extensively on digital strategy, museum policy, and new technologies for the art world. Kuan sits on the History of Collecting Advisory Committee at the Frick Collection, and she serves on The Brooklyn Rail Steering Committee.

Nato Thompson

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Author, curator and “cultural infrastructure builder” Nato Thompson is the founder of The Alternative Art School. With over 20 years of experience in the art world, he served as Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary, Chief Curator at Creative Time, and Curator at MASS MoCA. He has written two books of cultural criticism, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (Melville House, 2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Melville House, 2017), among many other publications.

Robert Storr

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Preeminent art critic, curator, artist, and educator Robert Storr is the former Dean of Yale School of Art and senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has written numerous catalogues, articles, and books on major 20th and 21st-century artists. He was the first American to serve as visual arts director of the Venice Biennale and has been researching and writing on Philip Guston for more than three decades.

    Dore Bowen

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    Dore Bowen, PhD, writes on modern and contemporary art, focusing on perceptual practices that probe the texture of ordinary life. She publishes in journals, such as Art in America, Afterimage, Culture & Musées, Square Cylinder, and Camerawork, on an international group of artists, including Yael Bartana, Dan Graham, Akram Zaatari, Elin Hansdottir, and Lydia Ourahmane. In 2019 Bowen published Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (with Constance M. Lewallen, University of California Press), and is currently completing a monograph on the diorama from the 19th century to contemporary installation art. She is Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.

    The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

    Dao Strom

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    Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

    We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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