Tag Archives: Thierry de Duve

“Teaching Artists: the Hollywood Way” – Thierry de Duve to speak at Art Center’s Graduate Art Seminar

By addressing everyone as if each person were a lover of art, indeed, an artist, we liberate desire and enthusiasm. – Thierry de Duve

Thierry de Duve, internationally renowned theorist, critic and educator on modern and contemporary art will be speaking on campus Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30 pm as part of Art Center’s Graduate Art Seminar. De Duve’s research and writing focus on a reinterpretation of modernism. Marcel Duchamp’s readymade and its implications for aesthetics have long been a central subject of his work.

De Duve is the author of a number of books including Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art (2001), Kant after Duchamp (1998), Clement Greenberg Between the Lines (1996), Pictorial Nominalism; On Marcel Duchamp’s Passage from Painting to the Readymade (1991) and was a contributing writer for Held Together with Water: Artwork from the Verbund Collection (2007). His publications include numerous catalogues and articles.

He curated the exhibition Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels (2000) and was responsible for the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2003. De Duve is professor of aesthetics and art history in the Fine Arts Department at Université Lille III in Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. He has held visiting professorships at the Sorbonne in Paris, France and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Johns Hopkins University, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has been a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and The Clark art institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The Graduate Art Seminar at Art Center  welcomes internationally recognized artists, critics, art historians, architects, filmmakers and writers to Pasadena to share their insights into the world of contemporary art. The seminar—a core component of Art Center’s Graduate Art program—takes place Tuesday evenings throughout the term and is free and open to the general public.

For a full list of speakers, please visit the Grad Art website.

Graduate Art Seminar Brings Distinguished Speakers from the International Art World to Art Center

Tuesdays. 7:30 pm. Los Angeles Times Media Center.

Currently underway, the Graduate Art Seminar at Art Center  welcomes internationally recognized artists, critics, art historians, architects, filmmakers and writers to Pasadena to share their insights into the world of contemporary art. The seminar—a core component of Art Center’s Graduate Art program—takes place Tuesday evenings throughout the term and is free and open to the general public.

Carroll Dunham, Tree with Red Flowers 2009. Mixed media on canvas, 75 x 90 inches. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery

Acclaimed Vancouver photographer Jeff Wall launched the series this term, with a roster of distinguished artists to follow, including noted philosopher, theorist and University of Lille professor Thierry de Duve (March 6); City University of New York’s Distinguished Professor Wayne Kostenbaum, the poet and celebrated author of such provocative titles as The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire; Jackie Under My Skin, and the newly released The Anatomy of Harpo Marks; (April 9*), and painter Carroll Dunham, who will speak on the occasion of a survey of his drawings at L.A.s Blum & Poe Gallery(April 17).

The series culminates with a special symposium titled “Changing the World” spearheaded by one of today’s most influential thinkers Alain Badiou (May 19). Badiou will be joined in conversation by noted professors Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA), Nathan Brown (UC Davis) and Jason E. Smith (Art Center).

For a full list of speakers, please visit the Grad Art website.

*Wayne Kostenbaum’s seminar will take place on a Monday