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Moderated by Simon Schama
Dec 02 1:00pm In partnership with The Museum of Modern Art |
With
Joachim Pissarro
Carrie Mae Weems
Simon Schama is a University Professor within the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has taught or lectured at Harvard University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. The author of a number of books, he received the Wolfson Prize for History in 1977 for Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813, the NCR Prize (the major non-ficion prize in the UK) for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, and the W.H. Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory. Schama has been a regular contributor to The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and has been art and cultural critic for The New Yorker since 1994, winning a National Magazine Award for his art criticism in 1996. He has received a literature award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2001 was made a Commander of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honour List. Schama also works regular as a writer and presenter for the BBC.
Joachim Pissarro joined MoMA in the fall of 2003 as Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. He previously held curatorial positions at a number of prominent institutions, and served as an independent curator, professor, and author. As the Seymour H. Knox, Jr. Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery from 1997 to 2000, Mr. Pissarro organized or co-organized exhibitions that include Jasper Johns's Recent Paintings (with Richard Field and Gary Garrels, 2000); After looking at Chinese Rocks: Brice Marden: Work in Progress (1999); and Post-Modern Transgressions (1999) and presided over the reinstallation of the modern and contemporary collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. From 1994 to 1997, he served as Chief Curator at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, where he coordinated (with guest curator Yve-Alain Bois) Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry (1997). In 2005 Mr. Pissarro's curated Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885 for MoMA and most recently he and Eva Respini co-organized the current exhibition Out of Time: A Contemporary View which will be on view at the Museum through April 2007. Mr. Pissarro was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and received a M. Phil in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute, London and a Ph D. in History of Art from the University of Texas at Austin.
Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer whose work uses narrative elements to examine class and gender issues through the window of personal experience and African-American heritage. In 2005 she received the Distinguised Photographers Award. Other awards include The Alpert Award for Visual Arts (1996), Visual Arts Fellowship (National Endowment for the Arts / 1994), Photographer of the Year (Friends of Photography / 1994) and selected one person exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art / New York, International Center of Photography, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art / San Francisco. Since 1980, Carrie Mae Weems's photographs and installations have been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad in nearly fifty one-person shows and numerous group exhibitions.
Maira Kalman
. Author/illustrator. Left New York University many many years ago in a huff. Certainly Illustrated column for the New York Times Select titled "Principles of Uncertainty." Contributor to the
New York Times
,
The New Yorker
,
Gourmet
,
Travel and Leisure
and other periodicals. Author/illustrator of a dozen children's books including the series about Max Stravinsky, the poet dog. Co-edited with late husband Tibor Kalman a book of vernacular fashion called
(un)FASHION
. Illustrator of
The Elements of Style
by Strunk and White. Designed productsand fabric for Kate Spade, Isaac Mizrahi and Michael Maharam. Sets for Mark Morris. Murals for Grand Central Station and Wave Hill Gardens. Teaches graduate design at the School of Visual Arts
NYC.
Creates products under the name
M&C
o. Products are distributed by the Museum of Modern Art. The
10.1.4. Watch is part of the permanent collection of the museum. Represented by the Julie Saul Gallery in
NYC.
Awards and honors - a goodly amount. Experience in traveling and embroidering. Collects buckets and beat
up suitcases.