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11:00 Welcome and Introduction, Vesela Sretenovic 11:15 The Way Forward, Peter Nisbet 12:15 Multiply and Conquer: The Beuys' Brand 1:15 Lunch 2:00 Custodial Quandaries, Lynn Cook 4:00 Creativity=Capital, Ronald Feldman PETER NISBET is Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University and Senior Lecturer in History of Art. He has published widely on topics in Soviet avant-garde art, German modernism, and museum history and theory. Concerning Joseph Beuys, at Harvard he has overseen the first US exhibition of Beuys' drawings (1984), the acquisition of a virtually complete set of the artist's multiples and many other works (1995), the co-publication of an updated and revised English language edition of the catalogue raisonné of the multiples (1997), and several other exhibition, teaching, and research projects on the artists work. Nisbet's presentation The Way Forward will consider the fact that Beuys' art still provokes substantial resistance from museumgoers and scholars. In his informal remarks, Nesbit will try to account for this, suggesting that the hostility perhaps derives from a nagging suspicion that Beuys' work is in fact too easy to understand. Recovering a sense of difficulty, contradictoriness, and diachronic development will help in re-assessing (and re-experiencing) the artist's achievement. CORNELIA LAUF is an art historian, writer and curator who specializes in contemporary art and design. She has a doctorate from Columbia University and is author of many publications, among which are The Leonardo Codices of Joseph Beuys (co-authored with Lynne Cooke, Ann Temkin, among others), published by Dia Center for the Arts in 1998. She has also published numerous articles in art magazines and journals such as Arts Magazine, Arts Scribe, Art and Text, Art in America, and Frieze. Currently she is producing books with Vanessa Beecroft and John Cale. In the 1990s, she was editor-in-chief of a small press in Belgium, and in 1996, Lauf founded Camera Oscura, an internationally known alternative space in Italy devoted to the interface between art, craft, and agriculture. She currently teaches at the university IUAV of Venice, Italy. Lauf's talk Multiply and Conquer will address the dissemination of meaning and creation of market through books and small editions, including Beuys' editioned works LYNNE COOK has been curator at Dia Art Foundation in New York since 1991. She was also a co-curator of the 1986 Aperto, Venice Biennale, and the 1991 Carnegie International, as well an artistic director of the 1996 Biennale of Sydney. In addition she has organized many numerous exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, including at t he Whitechapel Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London; Third Eye Center in Glasgow; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, among others. Renowned for her incisive critical essays, Cooke has written many artist monographs, including the ones on Rodney Graham, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater, and Agnes Martin. Cook has also written widely about contemporary art in art journals and magazines, such as Artscribe, Burlington Magazine, Parkett. She holds a doctorate from University of London, and is currently teaching at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. This April, Cooke will receive the 2006 award for curatorial excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Cook's discussion Custodial Quandaries will have two principal strands. One will consider the issues surrounding the posthumous installation of Beuys' work by taking as an example his piece Arena, and the second will address Beuys' work in relation to other artists, colleagues, and students, focusing on his relationship with Blinky Palermo. CARIN KUONI is director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, a research and public policy institute that examines the intersection of art and politics. An art historian, curator and critic, she was director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International from 1998 to 2003, and directed the Swiss Institute in New York from 1992 to 1997. Kuoni's lecture Joseph Beuys--Political Animal? will explore the political aspect of Beuys' work, by looking at some of the artist's political ideas, their reception in Germany and, later, the U.S., and a discussion of their currency for politically engaged artists today. One of the central questions to be raised here is, how is it that Beuys' political engagement--advocating environmentalism and conservation, open college admission and free education, individual empowerment and women's lib--never quite gained traction in the United States? RONALD FELDMAN is the founder of renowned Ronald Feldman Inc. Gallery in New York. He received a J.D. from New York University Law School in 1962. With his wife Frayda Feldman, he opened he opened the gallery 1971. Since then, the gallery has mounted nearly 250 solo and group exhibitions and has exhibited the work of more than 1000 artists. Feldman serves on the boards of Exit Art, the Research Center for Arts & Culture at Columbia University, the Creative Capital Foundation, the Art Dealers Association of America, and People for the American Way Foundation. In 1993, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Council on the Arts, where he served for five years. Feldman has been an adjunct professor of art history at Brown University, and is currently writing a book examining the content of art through the centuries. Ronald Feldman presentation, Creativity=Capital, will be a personal account of interacting with Beuys from 1972 to 1986. His main focus will be on his experiences traveling with Beuys in the United States and explaining what prompted Beuys to make many of his multiples, sculptures, and drawings. He will describe how Beuys wove his personal life into his artwork.
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