Public Programs
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The Leroy and Dorothy Lavine Lecture Series
The Leroy and Dorothy Lavine Lecture Series was established to honor the Lavines, two prominent Boston art patrons and long time supporters of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The Leroy and Dorothy Lavine Lectures bring to the Boston community distinguished art world figures for talks on modern and contemporary art. |
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Jeffrey Weiss Light Trap for Dan Flavin July 16, 2008
This talk will represent Dan Flavin's landmark Green Gallery exhibition in 1964 as a dividing point in the development of his work. Focusing on the precise nature of the fluorescent lamp (both the object and the light) as Flavin's sole medium, it will bracket Flavin in the context of the rise of so-called minimal art, seeking instead to position his early work within a more complex historical narrative centered on the re-emergence of Marcel Duchamp as an art world figure in New York circa 1960.
Jeffrey Weiss is an independent scholar in New York, having returned to academic and curatorial practice after a brief tenure as Director of the Dia Art Foundation. Previously, between 2000 and 2007, he was Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Weiss holds a Ph.D from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. His book, The Popular Culture of Modern Art, was published by Yale University Press in 1994. The curator of exhibitions on Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso and Jasper Johns, he edited and contributed to catalogues for those projects. He was also the editor for Dan Flavin: New Light, an anthology of essays published by Yale. Widely published in various periodicals on modern and post-war art, Weiss is an ongoing contributor to the magazine Artforum. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Christine Mehring "To the People of N.Y.C." — Palermo in and on America May 8, 2007
Christine Mehring is an Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Yale University in New Haven. She received her BA from the University of Lüneberg, Germany, her Master's from State University of New York at Stony Brook in Art History and Criticism and another from Harvard University, Fine Arts, where she also completed her PhD.
Pamela M. Lee Presentness Is Grace — Eros and Technics and Civilization May 11, 2006
In this talk, Pamela M. Lee, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, discusses some themes first explored in her MIT Press book, Chronophobia. Despite its pervasiveness, time in 1960s art has gone largely unexamined. Lee's talk examines the roll of time in Michael Fried's critique of minimalism as theatrical and in the art and technology initiatives of the late sixties (including Experiments in Art and Technology). Time is also discussed as crucial to the art of Hans Haacke and the writings of philosopher Stanley Cavell and critic and curator Jack Burnham.
James Meyer The Minimal Unconscious May 3, 2005
James Meyer, Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University, is one of the foremost authorities on the art of North America during the 1960s and contemporary art. A regular contributor to "Artforum" magazine, Meyer's publications include "Minimalism: Art and Polemics the 1960s" (2002) and "Minimalism" (2003). He is currently editing, "The Collected Writings of Carl Andre." |
