Publishing the Avant-Garde: International Perspectives on Art and Magazines
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a NYU Center for the Humanities discussion on Publishing the Avant-Garde: International Perspectives on Art and Magazines. Bringing together a group of scholars working at the intersection of printed matter and visual culture this panel will ask, how does the periodical help us tell cultural histories across geographies? To frame this conversation, Lori Cole (NYU) and Meghan Forbes (MoMA), along with invited panelists Amin Alsaden (independent curator), Olubukola Gbadegesin (St. Louis University), and Naomi Kuromiya (Columbia University), will introduce a range of magazines produced and distributed in disparate contexts: Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central Europe, and Latin America. Through a series of case studies, the panel aims to build a framework for examining magazines as a mode of circulation and exhibition of artwork. Together we will consider what periodicals and other printed ephemera have been left out of cultural histories—both in print and through contemporary collection and exhibition practices—and how new research can address these gaps.
Featuring:
Amin Alsaden
“Publishing Resistance: Agency and Exchanges in Post-WWII Baghdad”Olubukola Gbadegesin
“The Yoruba Photoplay Series: Photographs, Popular Arts, and Print Culture in Lagos”
Naomi Kuromiya
“Circulating Exhibitions: the Display of Artwork in the Japanese Calligraphy Periodical Bokubi (1951-1960)”
Moderated by Lori Cole (Clinical Associate Professor & Associate Director of XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, NYU) and Meghan Forbes (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at The Museum of Modern Art in New York & a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU).
Co-sponsored by XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and the Institute for Public Knowledge.