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CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS

The museum's Contemporary Conversations program provides a unique opportunity to engage
in a dialogue about the current exhibitions with the artists and the curators. The discussions take a variety of forms—a gallery talk, a panel discussion, a moderated conversation, or even a presentation and are free and open to the public. Look for Contemporary Conversations during the day every Saturday after an Opening of a new show, as well as in the evening throughout
the year.

Art and Music in the Nineties
Thursday, April 1

7:00 pm, Free admission

Join Director Paul Ha and Vintage Vinyl music guru Jim Utz as they remember the landscapes of art, culture, and music from the 1990s.

 

Past Lectures
Past lectures can be found on the Contemporary’s podcast page.

Saturday, January 23
Artist Talk: Sean Landers

1:00 pm, Free admission

Join Director Paul Ha and artist Sean Landers for a discussion of the artist's work.

Wednesday, November 18
A Talk with the Curator
6:00 pm, Free admission

Join Chief Curator Anthony Huberman for a special lecture about his curatorial process and approach to making exhibitions. Within the context of the current show, For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there, Huberman presents artists, artworks, and ideas that have inspired the way he thinks about art in general. The lecture is followed by a screening of Fischli & Weiss’ “The Way Things Go” (1987).

Saturday, September 12
1:00 pm, Free public talk
Free Edy’s Slow Churned Neighborhood Salute Ice Cream Party immediately to follow

Explore notions of curiosity, nonknowledge, and unlearning in a roundtable conversation with Jimmy Raskin, Dave Bailey, and Frances Stark, three of the artists featured in For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there. With Chief Curator Anthony Huberman, these artists will discuss their artistic processes and the new works they created specifically for this exhibition.

Be sure to stick around after the discussion for a FREE ice cream party and continued conversations!

Click here for further information on For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there.

Saturday, May 9
A Talk with Terrie Sultan and Carey Young
1:00 pm, Free public talk

Join Terrie Sultan, Director of the Parrish Art Museum and the organizing curator of the Chantal Akerman exhibition, and exhibiting artist Carey Young, for a roundtable discussion about the two exhibitions on view. The talk will be moderated by Assistant Curator Laura Fried.

Click here for further information on Carey Young.

Wednesday, April 15
A Lecture by Philippe Vergne

6:00 pm: Reception
7:00 pm: Public talk, Free admission


Named the director of the Dia Art Foundation in 2008, co-curator of the 2006 Whitney Biennial and for ten years a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Philippe Vergne comes to the Contemporary to talk about the work of Gedi Sibony.

Click here for further information on Gedi Sibony.

Image credit: Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.