“Flashpoints and Fault Lines: Museum Curation and Controversy”
(Image: Camouflage Self-Portrait by Andy Warhol. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas, 1986. © 2001 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
The Smithsonian is hosting two public forums to discuss the complex roles, responsibilities and constraints of organizing and presenting exhibitions in public institutions. The first session will be held Tuesday, April 26, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Meyer Auditorium at the Freer Gallery of Art. The second forum, also at the Freer, will be Wednesday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Smithsonian is hosting this public forum to discuss the complex roles, responsibilities and constraints of organizing and presenting exhibitions in public institutions.
The Tuesday evening session will focus in part on the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” Discussion topics will include difficulties in representing sensitive gender and sexuality subjects in public institutions.
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough; Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture; Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler Galleries will be in attendance and panelists will include curators from various Smithsonian exhibitions, including the co-curators of “Hide/Seek,” David C. Ward, NPG historian, and Jonathan Katz, director of the doctoral program in visual studies, State University of New York at Buffalo.
The daylong session Wednesday will focus on curation—listening to artists, scientists, public figures and cultural communities; exhibitions in a national museum; and museum stakeholders and curation.
The forum will have several public-comment and Q&A sessions.
Both sessions are free and open to the public and will be webcast at www.si.edu/flashpoints.
Meyer Auditorium capacity is about 300. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Posted: 13 April 2011
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