Most recently, Helen Molesworth was the Chief Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, where she curated the rst US retrospective of the Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and the monographic survey Kerry James Marshall: Mastry.
WHAT IS A COLLECTIVE?
AN EVENING WITH PHILIPPE PARRENO
In conversation with Ina Blom & Jörn Schafaff
Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor in the Department of Art History and Adjunct Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, will serve as the dedicated exhibition scholar for the American Pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale.
San Marino, California— The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has appointed Christina Nielsen as the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of the Art Collections. Nielsen, currently William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection and Exhibition Program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, assumes her new position on Oct. 15. Nielsen has worked for 20 years in curatorial and leadership roles in museums across the United States, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Celebrate the opening of the exhibition Interlocking: Models and Proposals by Virginio Ferrari, curated by University of Chicago alumni Lexi Drexelius and Lydia Mullin. Interlocking presents a survey of models, proposals, and drawings by Italian-born, Chicago-based sculptor Virginio Ferrari that serves as a case study for the stages of planning required of an artist to produce work for the public sphere.
How do we approach art historical study of monuments and images from settings without the aid of written history? How might archaeological context serve as an alternative record for art historical inquiry? Ancient mural art is especially well suited to the pursuit of archaeo art history. In this lecture, Lisa Trever (Associate Professor in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, Columbia University) offers perspectives—from the panoramic to the microscopic—on how meaning can be made from painted and sculpted murals created on the coast of Peru.
American art historians Erika Doss (University of Notre Dame) and Alex J. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh) contextualize the work of Italian sculptor Virginio Ferrari (b. 1937) within the broader landscape of public art in post-war Chicago and American cityscapes. Q&A and reception to follow.
Architectural historian and director of the Preservation Studies Program at Boston University Daniel Bluestone (PhD ’84) explores the contentious yearlong international preservation campaign spurred by the Chicago Theological Seminary’s 1957 plan to demolish Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and replace it with a married student dormitory.