On March 10th, 6 pm National Gallery of Art (Vilnius) will host Terry Smith’s lecture “Thinking Contemporary Curating” – first event of the series dedicated to issues of contemporary art theory.
What are the dominant trends in contemporary art field and how have particular art practices changed the ways of curating contemporary art? Terry Smith, art history professor at Pittsburgh University, has been researching on contemporary art theory and history issues and formulating principles of contemporary curating and theoretical talking for over a decade – artists, architects, curators and art theorists react to peculiarities of contemporary reality and the contemporary itself.
Terry Smith is art history and theory professor at Pittsburgh University (USA) and a visiting professor at National Institute for Experimental Arts of University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is an author of a number of publications, among which is “The Architecture of Aftermath” (University of Chicago Press, 2006), “What is Contemporary Art?” (University of Chicago Press, 2009), “Contemporary Art: World Currents” (London: Laurence King; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2011 and 2012) and “Thinking Contemporary Curating” (New York: Independent Curators International, 2012). Smith has also compiled the “Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity and Contemporaneity” (Duke University Press, 2008), together with Nancy Condee and Okwui Enwezor.
The event will be held in English.
Organized by: Inesa Pavlovskaitė (The Gardens, inesa@thegardens.lt)
Partner: National Gallery of Art
