MoMA Talks: Panel Discussions and Symposia

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "Mapping Alternatives: The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Politics of Neutrality" Emily Liebert, Columbia University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Discussion Moderated by Claire Bishop, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Warwick University Irmgard Emmelhainz, University of Toronto Taro E.F. Nettleton, University of Rochester Emily Liebert, Columbia University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "An Adult Is Being Beaten: Infantility, Development, and Power in Shuji Terayama's Emperor Tomato Ketchup" Taro E.F. Nettleton, University of Rochester

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "Mapping Alternatives: The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Politics of Neutrality" Emily Liebert, Columbia University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "Mapping Alternatives: The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Politics of Neutrality" Emily Liebert, Columbia University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Discussion Moderated by Claire Bishop, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Warwick University Irmgard Emmelhainz, University of Toronto Taro E.F. Nettleton, University of Rochester Emily Liebert, Columbia University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Introduction David Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art "Lipstick Ascending: Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art, and the Cultural Revolution" Tom Williams, Stony Brook University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "Hemispheric Tendencies: The Display of Latin American Abstract and Perceptual Art at the Center for Inter-American Relations (1967-1977)" Taína B. Caragol, The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Friday, April 13, 2007 Keynote address Thomas Keenan, Director, Human Rights Project; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Introduction David Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art "Lipstick Ascending: Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art, and the Cultural Revolution" Tom Williams, Stony Brook University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "Hemispheric Tendencies: The Display of Latin American Abstract and Perceptual Art at the Center for Inter-American Relations (1967-1977)" Taína B. Caragol, The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art" Luke Skrebowski, Middlesex University, England

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "Jean-Luc Godard's Militant Filmmaking between Breton's Objective Engagement and Sartre's Engaged Activism (1967-1974)" Irmgard Emmelhainz, University of Toronto

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Discussion Moderated by Branden Joseph, Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary American and European Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14 The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium. Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007 "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art" Luke Skrebowski, Middlesex University, England