Today the Smithsonian hosts an eleven-hour symposium called "Addressing (and Redressing) the Silence: New Scholarship in Sexuality and American Art." The event, "gathers American art historians who will propose and promote new paradigms for understanding the fraught relationship between sexuality and portraiture. In 11 papers spanning 100 years of American history, themes of racial, sexual and gendered difference will be reassessed to yield new interpretations of the history of modern American art." The complete schedule is below.
On Monday, January 31 at 1:00pm, Art Positive and other activists will again protest the removal of David Wojnarowicz's video Fire in My Belly and, in turn, demand the removal of Smithsonian head Wayne Clough. Full details here. (Image via.)
If you can't make the show in the next two weeks, buy the catalog to keep forever.
9:15–10:45 Archives and Discovery 9:15–9:50 Jonathan Weinberg, Lost and Found: Searching for the Lesbian and Gay Presence in the Archives of American Art
9:50–10:25 Joe Lucchesi, The Body’s Shadow: On Archives, Photographs, and Queer Desire
10:25–10:45 Discussion
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–1:15 Racing Desires
11:00–11:35 Tavia Nyong’o, The Confidence Man as Painted Lady: Dandyism and Transgendered Self-Fashioning in Antebellum New York
11:35–12:10 Tirza Latimer, Modernism’s Other Others: Faith Ringgold’s Dinner at Gertrude Stein’s
12:10–12:45 Diana Linden, “I Am a Man!”: Race and Gender in William Christopher’s Paintings in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
12:45–1:15 Discussion
1:15–2:15 Lunch and opportunity to view the exhibition, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.”
2:30–4:45 Desire at Mid-century
2:30–3:05 James Boaden, Jess’ Imaginary Portraits
3:05–3:40 Jonathan D. Katz, The Sexuality of Abstraction: Agnes Martin
3:40–4:15 Dominic Johnson, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures, or the Burden of Disgust
4:15–4:45 Discussion
4:45–5:15 Break
5:15–8:00 Desire and the Public
5:15–5:50 Chris Reed, Imagining Identity: Sexuality, Regionalism, and Legacy in Mid-20th Century American Art
5:50–6:25 David Getsy, Open Seating: Scott Burton, Performance Art, Public Art, and the 1970s
6:25–7:00 Jennifer Doyle, Hold It Against Me: Difficulty, Emotion, and David Wojnarowicz
7:00–8:00 Discussion
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