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Alba Campo Rosillo is a curator of American Art and the 2021–22 Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. She discusses the opportunity to write new narratives for American Art.

May 20, 2021 Online dialogue American artist and influential teacher Lari Pittman discusses his paintings and his reflections on the Los Angeles art world in this conversation with art historian David J. Getsy. Pittman and Getsy discuss the struggles to address issues of sexuality, gender, and the decorative in the 1970s. They also explore the […]

February 24, 2021 Online dialogue Katy Siegel (Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University and Senior Research Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art) and Devika Singh (Curator, International Art, Tate Modern) locate American artists within transnational art histories, beginning with an examination of Isamu Noguchi’s artworks made in India. Through examining Japanese American […]

October 20, 2020 Institut national d’histoire de l’art This roundtable considered the work of Ilene Segalove and Susan Mogul, two lesser-known artists working in California in the 1970s who renewed the relationship between contemporary art and the entertainment industry. Stand-up comedy, whether on radio or television, offered a model to these artists who, in the […]

November 2, 2020 Online dialogue In this dialogue organized by the Terra Foundation, Stephanie Schwartz (Associate Professor in American Art, University College London) and Quentin Bajac (Director, Jeu de Paume) address the legacy of Walker Evans (1903–75) and the renewals of American documentary from the 1960s to the present. Expanding from her recently published book […]

April 16 & 17, 2019 Institut national d’histoire de l’art & Université Paris Diderot, Paris This study day addressed the notion of the transactional both as a historically specific term, grounded in the particular cultural and intellectual context of the 1940s United States, and as a method of inquiry that focuses on reciprocal and mutually […]

September 27, 2018 Terra Foundation Paris Center & Library Ahead of the opening of Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, at the Jeu de Paume (October 16, 2018–January 27, 2019), this dialogue explored Lange’s socially engaged work made during the Great Depression and World War II in the United States. From 1935 to 1939, Lange captured […]

June 4 & 5, 2018 Fondation Custodia, Paris This international conference looked at the ways printmaking engaged with and often challenged American society and politics from the 1960s to today. Special attention was given to print workshops, collaborative practices, and the ways in which the print media encouraged art activism. Focusing on the specificity of […]

March 29, 2018 Terra Foundation for American Art Paris Center & Library Among the critical questions that mark African American art historical scholarship today, the legacy of slavery and the transmission of cultural memories rooted in African traditions have emerged as some of the most loaded issues. Tracing the importance of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora in […]

February 6, 2018 Terra Foundation Paris Center & Library Since the 1960s, “working against Greenberg” has proven to be a productive path for artists, critics, and art historians alike. Intermedial practices have undone his notion of medium-specificity as a driving force for artistic experimentation, together with the formalism it implies. Concentration on the gendered body […]