EventsThe New Social Environment#363

Abstract Cartography: Robert Smithson

Featuring Lisa Le Feuvre, Jack Flam, James Meyer, and Phyllis Tuchman

Friday, August 13, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Holt/Smithson Foundation Director Lisa Le Feuvre, Dedalus Foundation President Jack Flam, and Curator at the National Gallery of Art James Meyer join Rail Editor-at-Large Phyllis Tuchman for a conversation on Robert Smithson. We conclude with a poetry reading by Gaia Rajan.

James Meyer

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Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Art historian James Meyer is Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and organizer of The Double exhibition. He was previously the Winship Distinguished Research Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University and Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Dia Art Foundation. His publications include Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s (Yale University Press, 2001), Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959-1971 (University of Chicago Press, 2016), The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900 (Princeton University Press, 2022).

    Phyllis Tuchman

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    Critic and art historian Phyllis Tuchman teaches and writes about art, particularly sculpture. She has taught at Williams College, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.

      Lisa Le Feuvre

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      Curator, writer, editor, and public speaker Lisa Le Feuvre is the inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation. Committed to communicating and testing ideas, she has curated exhibitions in museums and galleries across Europe, published writings in international publications and journals, spoken in museums and universities across the world, sat on numerous award panels, and has played a pivotal role in shaping academic and arts organizations. Previously based in the UK, she led the Henry Moore Institute (2010-17), was an academic based in the graduate Curatorial Program at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2004-10), and until 2004 was Course Director of the graduate program in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck College, University of London.

      Jack Flam

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      Jack Flam is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dedalus Foundation and distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous books, catalogues, and articles on various aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American art, and on African art. He has organized exhibitions in major European and American museums and has lectured extensively at museums and universities throughout the world. He is the editor of Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, which was published by the University of California Press in 1996.

        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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