Centennial Conversation—Art Now: Shifting Terrain
Thursday: May 21, 6–8 pm
6–7 pm Reception
Free; pre-registration required, please call 973-596-6550.
Curator Dr. Christa Clarke, Senior Curator, Arts of Africa and the Americas, and Curator, Arts of Africa, will moderate a discussion about how forces of globalization are reshaping definitions of contemporary art and its representation in the public sphere.  The panel includes Melissa Chiu (Asia Society), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton University) and Lowery Sims (Museum of Arts and Design).

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Behind Quiet Veils of the Blue Willow, 2001, Red Weldon Sandlin, Earthenware, wood, paint, Gift of Susan Thayer Farago, 2001

Buddha@Hotmail, 2006, Gonkar Gyatso, Silkscreen print, Purchase 2007 Mathilde Oestrich Bequest Fund

Movement #36, 2002, Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah, Acrylic and pigment on canvas, Purchase 2007 Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund (below)

Dissolution, 2005, Bill Viola, Color video (edition of 7), Purchase 2007 Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund (above)