The Clark Art Institute presents a virtual talk by Deborah Willis, author of The Black Civil War Soldier, exploring the crucial role of photography in shaping African American narratives of the Civil War.
Sarah Hamill (Sarah Lawrence College), Michael Ann Holly Fellow in the Clark's Research and Academic Program , considers the curiously underexamined work of the 1970s: artist Mary Miss’s Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys (1978), which is situated on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art. Rosalind Krauss opened her landmark 1979 essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” with the work, but it has received scant attention since.
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Vassar College), the Research and Academic Program's Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellow presents a talk on the role of artists in addressing concerns about the vulnerability of the population of the poor communities living along the banks of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo in the face of violent political repression, rampant environmental pollution, and the impacts of climate change.
In this keynote lecture for "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints," exhibition curator David S. Areford discusses how Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) embraced printmaking in earnest in 1970, quickly homing in on the medium's inherent technical and procedural properties that best served his particular brand of conceptual art.
The I/O New Music Ensemble, directed by Matthew Gold, Artist in Residence in Percussion and Contemporary Music Performance at Williams College, performed in conjunction with "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints" on March 4, 2022.
