Tradition Unbound: Contemporary Responses to Art’s Past, Part I

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Murtaza Vali, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Anna Sloan, Mount Holyoke College

Political Pots and Contentious Clay: A Postmodern Reading of Contemporary Ceramic Art

Tamsin Whitehead, independent scholar, Northwood, New Hampshire


Elaine Reichek’s Modern-Day Samplers

Paula J. Birnbaum, University of San Francisco


An Ambivalent Reappearance of the Orientalist Hamam

Michel Oren, California State University, Fullerton


Sacred Love and Sexual Devotion in the Late “Gay” Paintings of Bhupen Khakhar

Karin J. Zitzewitz, University of Chicago


Re-Presenting Tradition: Strategies of Transnational Contemporary Artists in the International Exhibitions Network

Joe Martin Hill, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


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