Lecture: Design for the Other 90%

Tonight Cynthia Smith, curator at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum will be speaking at Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus.

Thursday, November 15 2007

6:30 PM

Main Building (Brooklyn) Room 230

BH Friedman at Pratt

Earlier this month BH Friedman, a close friend of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and our professor Janet Kardon, spoke to our class. He read from his 1972 biography Pollock: Energy Made Visible, the journals he kept of his experiences with many of the artists of the New York School, and shared a part of art history that he had and continues to live first hand.

Friedman has written catalogues and monographs for artist friends like Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, and Robert Goodnough. His other works include biographies on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and – of course- Jackson Pollock. In his alternate life as realtor, construction company owner and trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, he oversaw the construction of the Madison Avenue building designed by Marcel Beauer in 1966.

The world wide web describes him as a novelist, biographer, playwright, and art critic.

The things that came up in our lecture:

For Art’s Sake

Pollock Foundation

For fantastic kicks

Helene Wasserman

Could be a Pollock, Must be a Yarn

Emerging Art Leaders of NY

Tomorrow – Thursday
Seminar:

Paving Your Own Path in Arts Administration

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 6:30-8:30PM

Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(Take the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, or R to Atlantic/Pacific and walk up Flatbush, take a right onto Lafayette Ave.)

Participate in a peer-to-peer chat sharing your challenges and successes while pursuing a career in arts administration. Register for this event and the Creative Conversations on http://www.artsusa.org/services/emerging_leaders/events/creative_convers
ations/

MOMA Lecture: The Creative Catalyst

I’m not suggesting you be a slacker and listen to art history lectures at work but…

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New York—The Creative Catalyst
July 12, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Through a series of individual presentations and a moderated discussion, artists and scholars explore the various ways in which New York has been a source of adventure, inspiration, and creativity. Participants include Douglas Crimp, art critic and professor of art history and visual and cultural studies, University of Rochester; Peter Eisenman, founder and principal, Eisenman Architects, New York; Meredith Monk, artist; and others. Moderated by David Joselit, professor and chair, history of art department, Yale University.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years.

Lecture: Director of Iraq National Library and Archive

Speaker: Dr. Saad Eskander

November 12, 2007 6:00 -8:00 p.m. Columbia University – email to register cul-events@columbia.edu

Iraq National Library, Archives and Cultural Institutions in Jeopardy (Society of American Archivists statement)

We are deeply concerned about recent reports that Iraq National Guard troops have illegally and unnecessarily occupied the Iraq National Library and Archives.

As the International Committee of the Blue Shield has stated, “Historical sites and monuments, paintings and museum artifacts, books and libraries, manuscripts and archives all recount the history of the communities affected and of mankind as a whole. They are extremely vulnerable to attack during armed conflicts and, if they are damaged or destroyed, it is always difficult and often impossible to replace them or to restore them to their former condition. If the cultural heritage does not survive intact, then present and future generations in the region will not be able to appreciate their cultural identity in the fullest sense.”

SAA calls on the Iraq National Guard and all groups within the country to respect the provisions of The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols, as well as the 1972 World Heritage Convention, which calls on countries “not to take any deliberate measures which might damage directly or indirectly the cultural and natural heritage” of any nation. It is particularly deplorable that the National Guard may be threatening and damaging the cultural patrimony of its own nation.

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