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A panel discussion on issues of politics, race, and feminism in the art world as they emerged during the mid-‘60s when, influenced by social change and the burning political issues of the day, artists such as Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Mary Heil-mann, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Howardena Pindell, Alan Shields, and Richard Tuttle created works of great joy, passion, fury, and imagination, expanding conventional concepts of what “painting” could mean. The panel will look at the reper-cussions today of that historical moment of exuberance, when painting escaped the confines of a prescriptive modernism forty years ago. Moderated by Katy Siegel, associate professor of art history and criticism at Hunter College; teacher at the CUNY Graduate Center and Yale University; contributing editor of Artforum; and curator of the exhibition, High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975. Panelists include Anna Chave, Professor of art history at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Howardina Pindell, artist; Robert Pincus-Witten, art historian, critic, and professor emeritus at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York; and Jack Whitten, artist.
Presented on the occasion of the exhibition, High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, organized by ICI, and on view at the National Academy Museum located at 1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street. The panel discussion is organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), the National Academy Museum and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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