Recent
Moderator for Panel, “The Contemporary Art Gallery”
- The Studio School, 25 October 2017
“The Preservation of Contemporary Art: Conservation as Interpretation in the Museum”
- Turin, July 6, 2017
Panel Participant, “The Contemporary Art Gallery”
- The Studio School, April 4, 2017
With Darren Jones, “The Contemporary Art Gallery”
- The Studio School, October 14, 2015
“Wild Art”
- Madre Museum, Naples (Italy), December 3, 2014
- Academia, Naples (Italy), December 5, 2014
- Circolo dei Lettori, University of Turin (Italy), December 9, 2014
“The Contemporary Art Gallery”
- Psychoanalysis and Art: Sixth International Symposium, Florence, May 17, 2014
“Wild Art”
- Department of Art History, University of Florence, Florence, May 16, 2014
With Joachim Pissarro, “From Wild Art to Mild Art”
- The Studio School, February 26, 2014
With Joachim Pissarro, “Wild Art”
- The Institute for Contemporary Art, London, October 8, 2013
- The Prince's Drawing School, London, October 9, 2013
- Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, October 10, 2013
- Berlin, October 11, 2013.
“Kant’s Anarchistic Aesthetics”
- June 5, 2013, Department of Philosophy, University of Turin.
“Placing the Early Writings of Adrian Stokes: From Sunrise in the West (1926) to The Quattro Cento (1932)”
- Tate London, May 25, 2013; Link: published online.
“Kant’s Anarchistic Aesthetics”
- March 29, 2013. University of Louisville.
“Wild Art”
- University of Kentucky, March 28, 2013
“Kant’s Anarchistic Aesthetics”
- University of Kentucky, March 29 2013
“Wild Art”
- Art Department, University of Toronto, November 6, 2012
With Adele Tutter,” Caravaggio/Poussin”
- April 20, 2012, BrooklynFineArts, NY.
“The Place of Indian Art within a World Art History”
- April 6, 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
With Adele Tutter, “Sex and Aggression”
- Private Session – NY Psychoanalytic Society,” 3 January 2012.
With Adele Tutter, “Caravaggio/Poussin”
- Studio School, November 9, 2011
“Presentism and Conservation of Visual Art”
- November 5, 2011, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
“Wild Art”
- Art Department, Columbia University, October 18, 2011
Visiting Lecturer, Philippe de Montebello’s NYU graduate class, “The Encyclopedic Museum: Enlightened or Entitled?”
- October 18, 2011
“Wild Art”
- Guangzhou, September 22, 2011
“Painting and the Photograph within and outside the Art World System”
- Columbus Museum of Art, April 16, 2011
“Abstract Painting in the Norton Simon Collection”
- Norton Simon Museum, March 26. 2011
With Joachim Pissarro, “Beyond Art,” “Experience,” and “Globalization”
- February, 2011, College Art Association, New York City
With Philippe de Montebello, “On the Prospects for a World Art History”
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, November 3, 2010.
“Arthur Danto as Artist”
- University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, October 7, 2010
"The Art Museum Today"
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September 10, 2010
- Oswaldo Rodriquez Roque Lecture, Yale Art Museum, September 23, 2010
“Kant and Modernism”
- Albritten Lecture, Baylor University, April 9, 2010
With Joachim Pissarro, "Art Outside the Art World”
- Studio School, March 12, 2010
“How to Misunderstand Chinese Art: Seven Examples”
- Beijing International Conference on Art Theory and Criticism, May 28, 2009
“Sean Scully”
- Luxan Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, May 21, 2009
“Gombrich on Chinese Art”
- E. H. Gombrich auf dem Weg zu einer BIldwissenschaft des 21.Jahrhunderts, March 31, 2009,
- Greifswald, Germany. National Central University, Taipei, April 26, 2009
“Peter Saul’s Political Art”
- Keynote address, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1 November, 2008
“The Place of Japanese Buddhist Art in a World Art History”
- Japanese Art History Society, Tokyo, 1 June, 2008 published in Chinese Journal of Chinese Fine Arts. 2008: 61-72.
- National Chenghi University, Taipei, April 24, 2009
- Luxan Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, May 22, 2009
Panelist, “Unique Act”
- Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, March 12, 2008
“The Future of the Art Museum”
- Seton Hall University, March 6, 2008
“Towards a World Art History,” World Art: Ways Forward
- Sainsbury Center, University of East Anglia, England, September 8, 2007
Discussion of my Museum Skepticism
- National Public Radio, Minnesota, June 28, 2007
Book Panel (discussion of my Museum Skepticism)
- American Association of Museums, Chicago, May 14, 2007
Keynote essay, On line Conference in Aesthetics. Arthur Danto’s Transfiguration of the Commonplace- 25 Years Later.
- January 22, 2007- on line at artmind.typepad.com/onlineconference
The Review Panel (discussion of art criticism)
- National Academy Museum, November 3, 2006
Guest speaker. “The Craft of Criticism”
- The Studio School, November 1, 2006.
Informal Panel Discussion, Museum Skepticism
- National Humanities Center, October 10, 2006. Helsinki, Atheneum, April 10, 2007
“A World Art History”
- National Humanities Center, October 5, 2006
- Sewanee- University of the South, November 15, 2006
- Art History Department, University of South Carolina, November 9, 2006
- Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, November 30, 2006
- Art History Department, Duke University, 22 February, 2007
- Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Lithuania, April 5, 2007
“Two Representations of Masaniello’s Revolt in Neapolitan Paintings”
- Art History Department, University of Iowa, September 13, 2006
- Swedish Academy, Rome, September 23, 2006
“A Multicultural Art History”
- Art Department, University of Ioannina, Greece, May 8, 2006
“Writing a World Art History”
- School of Visual Arts, New York, March 2, 2006
“Nicolas Poussin, Henri Matisse, Richard Diebenkoen, Sean Scully: How Artists Change Their Styles”
- Lecture and Gallery Talk, the Phillips Gallery, December 8, 2005
- Massachusetts College of Art, March 14, 2006
- New York Studio School, April 28, 2006.
“Working Locally, Thinking Globally”
- panel participant, Cleveland Institute of Art, November 16, 2005
“The World Now is One”
- Beijing Biennale Symposium, Hefei, September 24, 2005
“Islamic Carpets in Paintings: An Alternative Theory of the Origin of the Art Museum”
- Peking University, September 22, 2005
“A Multicultural Art History”
- University of Iowa, March 9, 2005
“Islamic Carpets in Paintings: An Alternative Theory of the Origin of the Art Museum”
- College Art Association, February 19, 2005.
“Marcel’s Studio Visit with Elstir”
- Brown University, December 4, 2004
- Grinnell College, March 10, 2005
- Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 4, 2007
- Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, April 10, 2007
“The Shapes of Art’s History” – Two Lectures.
Towards a Universal Art History: The Story of Painting and Sculpture in Europe and India
Why We Need a Universal Art History: Museums and Mutual Recognition
- Mumbai, November 15 and 16, 2004
- New Delhi, November 18 and 19, 2004
“Art Writing”
- School for Visual Arts, Thursday, October 21, 2004
“The Art Museum and Its Enemies”
- Clark Institute Symposium, October 14, 2004
“The Public Art Museum”
- High Lane Gallery, Dublin, May 20, 2004
- Clark Institute, September 14, 2004
- Mt. Holyoke College, Tuesday October 5, 2004
- Art Department, Aristotle University, Thesselanaki, Greece, May 12, 2006
- Jocelyn Art Musum, Omaha, June 13, 2006
“Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary American Visual Art”
- Bejing Forum, August 24, 2004
Discussion of my writings
- Institute of Art, Technology & Design Visual Art Practice MA students, Dublin, May 19, 2004
Studio visits
- National College of Art & Design MA students, Dublin, May 17, 2004
“Interpreting the Post-Historical Museum: The Fate of High Art in an Era of Mass Culture”
- University of Buffalo, April 2, 2004.
“Anthony Blunt as Art Historian”
- Courtauld Institute, March 9, 2004.
“The Public Art Museum”
- University of North Carolina, Greensborough, February 20, 2004. (And studio visits.)
“The Art Museum as Installation: An Interpretation of the Place of Matisse’s The Joy of Life in the Barnes Foundation”
- University of Toronto, November 2003.
“Discussion with Martin Ball”
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, June 15, 2003.
“Old Master Drawing in the Art Museum”
- University of Toronto Humanities Centre, March 20, 2003.
“The Art Museum”
- Art History Department, University of Iowa, February 6, 2003
Participant, “Danto-Conference”
- Columbia University, October 4-6, 2002.
Participant, “Adrian Stokes Conference”
- Bristol, June 28-July 1, 2002.
“Writing about Art: A Reading”
- Studio School, New York, May 8, 2002.
“Writing about Art: The Function of Museums and Art Galleries”
- Kent State University, April 25, 2002.
“Skeptics, Art Lovers, and the Art Museum”
- Shelden Museum, Omaha Nebraska, November 9, 2001
- College Art Association, Feburary 23, 2002.
Session on The Aesthetics of Comics
- American Society of Aesthetics, Minneapolis, October 2001
“New York Art, Pittsburgh Art, Art”
- Carnegie Museum, September 8, 2001.
“The Art Museum”
- Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University, February 15, 2001
“Exhibiting the Other: Museums of Mankind and the Politics of Cultural Representation”
- Centre Allemand d’Histoire de L’art, Paris, November 2-5, 2000.
- Chair, Session on Ethnology and Modern Art.
“The Art of Display in A Post-Historical Museum. The Uses of Spectacle in the J. Paul Getty Museum”
- Seminar, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, June 13, 2000
“Turning Pages: Adrian Stokes’ Quattro Cento”
- Getty Research Institute, April 3, 2000
Panelist, “ Contemporary Printmaking and the Art of Collaboration”
- Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, 18 March, 2000
“Artforum and its Discontents”
- New York Studio School, February 23, 2000
“Catharism and Its Discontents”
- College Art Association, New York, February 2000