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Art and Art History

Viewpoint Lecture Series 2008

The Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce that Viewpoint 2008 will be presented for the seventeenth consecutive year. This series of concentrated visits, lasting several days, are spread throughout the semester. Viewpoint is conducted by leading curators, critics, and scholars who are involved in the diverse and multifaceted contemporary art world. The lecturers are always brought in pairs and present various programs including public lectures, seminars, and individual studio critiques with graduate students. Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders, this year's invitees, will present various programs consisting of public lectures, seminars, and studio critiques. Admission to the lectures and seminars is free and the public is cordially invited.

Katy Siegel is an associate professor of art history at Hunter College, CUNY and a contributing editor to Artforum. She is the co–author of Art Works: Money (Thames & Hudson, 2004), and more recently, the curator of the traveling exhibition “High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975,” which is currently touring in Europe. She is the author of a major essay on Jeff Koons for his new monograph (Taschen, 2008), and has written widely on contemporary art and artists, including Takashi Murakami, Lisa Yuskavage, Rineke Dijkstra, Bernard Frize, Dana Schutz, and Richard Tuttle.

Wade Saunders is a sculptor and critic and teaches at Parsons Paris School of Art & Design and at the Institut des Etudes Politiques. He has written for Art in America since 1978, focusing on artists not widely known (Bill Bollinger, Robert Grosvenor), issues rarely discussed (the posthumous editions of Bas Jan Ader), or sociological aspects of the art world (Los Angeles's importance to recent sculpture, the role of studio assistants). Saunders has exhibited since 1975; recently, he showed at the Galerie Jean Fournier in Paris. His last U.S. exhibition was at the Rosenwald–Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Viewpoint 2008 – Events Calendar

Map to Art Building (ART)

  • Thursday, February 14
    Public Lecture – Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders
    4:00 p.m. — Art Building, Room 1.102
  • Friday, February 15
    Seminar, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. — Art Building, Room 3.206
  • Saturday, February 16
    Private Student Critiques – Contact Sarah Canright for appointment.
  • Thursday, March 20
    Public Lecture – Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders
    4:00 p.m. — Art Building, Room 1.102
  • Friday, March 21
    Seminar, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. — Art Building, Room 3.206
  • Saturday, March 22
    Private Student Critiques – Contact Sarah Canright for appointment.
  • Thursday, April 17
    Public Lecture – Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders
    4:00 p.m. — Art Building, Room 1.102
  • Friday, April 18
    Seminar, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. — Art Building, Room 3.206
  • Saturday, April 19
    Private Student Critiques – Contact Sarah Canright for appointment.

Recent Viewpoint programs have included the following pairs of art critics or curators:

  • Johanna Burton and Tim Stokes
  • Lowery Stokes and Ralph Rugoff
  • Michael Duncan and Marcia E. Vetrocq
  • Chrissie Iles and Tom Eccles
  • Robert Storr and Ingrid Schaffner
  • David Pagel and Nancy Princenthal
  • Lisa Liebmann and Brooks Adam

For further information contact:

Michael Mogavero at 471–0922 or 524–0300 or Email: mogavero@mail.utexas.edu

Sarah Canright at 471–0907 or Email: rococo@mail.utexas.edu