Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 8th

 Top Picks for Art Online Week of November 8th

Virtual Insights: New Approaches to American Art 

American Folk Art Museum/ Zoom conversation & Q+A

November 10, 2020 / 6-7:30pm / free w/registration (donation suggested)

This event poses the question: What does it mean to be defined as "American" within museums today? Curators will explore their work and the ways in which they look into the past to recontextualize, retell, reimagine the relationship between the many facets of social, politial and artistic histories that they draw upon. Panelists include curator Sylvia Yount who oversees the department of historical African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American art, from the colonial period to the early-twentieth century at MoMA, Layla Bermeo curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Kimberli Grant the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. This talk is in conjunction with the current exhibit on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York titled American Perspectives. 

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Specific Objects: A Donald Judd Symposium, Part 1

Museum of Modern Art/Online Lecture/Symposium

November 12, 2020 / 6:30pm ET / free with registration

Donald Judd is one of those sculptors whose work you see in photos and kind of shrug off. But, seeing his work in person is a whole other experience. His geometric blocks, plays of color and intersecting lines become ominous, luminous forms that represent a mastery of negative space. I don't really know much about his background (in fact, I just this minute learned that he is from Missouri!), or history of his work, but I do know that his minimalist, unmistakable compositions overpower any room that encounters them. This Symposium is part of the exhibit Judd currently on view at MoMA in NYC. 

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Tumultuous Absence: The 26th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium 

Rutgers Univeristy Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives/Online Symposium 

November 12 + 13 / 10am-8pm ET (see schedule for sessions) / free w/registration

I have a distinct memory of trvaeling to a basement-like room in the bowels of the Rutgers University Library to stare at a book of myth that literally had the seeds from a fruit embedded in its pages, marveling at the white glove handling of the rare and beautiful piece. Years later, a friend of mine I met at Rutgers worked for the Rare Book Room at the Strand, a quiet, secluded, ornate space of musty treasures, inclusing Yoko Ono's Grapefruit at the time. I love art books and the intense craft and delicate care that goes into their construction. This annual conference looks into the creativity and practice of the art book with talks, workshops and presentations. Two artists involved in the second half of this year's online version of the event (the earlier half took place last week) include the pulpy rough hewn pages of artist Aimee Lee and the layered wonders of Julie Chen. 

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Domitor 2020 Online Conference

Domitor/Zoom conference

November 17-20, 2020 / see schedule for times/ free w/registration

Domitor was the name considered by the Lumière brothers, the pioneers of cinema, as a nomiker for their grand invention (eventually, obviously, settling on“Cinématographe").  Today, Domitor is an international association for early cinema, roughly the period from 1890 to 1915. "With its interest in the longue durée and in placing the cinema in a broader intermedial context, the field of early cinema studies has strong affinities with the study of early popular visual culture, media archaeology, and histories of 'pre-' or 'proto-' cinematic media from chronophotography to the magic lantern and shadow plays," the conception of the moving image repsonsible for today's visually saturated image world. The organization's annual conference takes place in Paris, France but this year, it will be held online for all to see! Wednesday Nov. 18th seems partiularly appealing to me with discussions on "Cameras, Projectors & Trick Photography"and "Useful Animation in Early Cinema." The presentations are currently available online, live discussions will take place on the 17-20th. 

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