NYAB Event - "Art Museums, Private Collectors, and the Public" Symposium

"Art Museums, Private Collectors, and the Public" Symposium

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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On March 13, 2010, the New Museum will host a daylong symposium on the past, present, and future of the cooperation between private collectors and public institutions. The first session will focus on the importance of public/private partnerships to the rise and development of the American art museum. It will look at the history of patronage in America, the proliferation of institutions during America's first Gilded Age, and how this set the stage for cultural dynamics in this century. The second session will focus on new models of public/private partnerships currently being implemented or considered. It will look at changing conditions in the cultural landscape and the need for museums to find innovative solutions to meet the challenges of a new century.

The first panel starts at 12:30 p.m. "Public/Private Partnerships: The Development of the American Art Museum," features as its panelists: Inge Reist,Director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America, Frick Art Reference Library, and The Frick Collection, where she has worked since 1980.; Linda Nochlin is Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts; Sally Webster is Professor Emerita of American Art at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Andrew McClellan is Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts & Sciences and Professor of Art History at Tufts University; and Richard Flood, Chief Curator at the New Museum.

The second panel starts at 3 p.m. "Crossing into the Future: New Models of Collaboration," features as its panelists: Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. From 1997 to 2001, she was head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern, London; Francesco Bonami, curator of the 2010 Whitney Biennial. He was formerly Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and American Editor of Flash Art. He is also the artistic director of Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin; Tom Eccles is Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College. From 1997 to 2005 he was Director and Curator at The Public Art Fund, New York; Lisa Phillips is Toby Devan Lewis Director at the New Museum.