*Please note this event takes place at the Courtauld’s Kings Cross space and not at Somerset House*
Museum Members: free
£25 for non-members, £15 for students (ID required at registration). Coffee and lunch included
Join us for the CAS Annual Conference, bringing together scholars, curators and museum professionals to consider significant recent initiatives in collecting, exhibitions and display, and the issues they raise.
In recent decades, notions of a fixed “canon”, or a single narrative in modern and contemporary art has come under question from all sides. Museums and galleries have been at the centre of the debate, playing an active part in revising art history. Modern art as a story of national histories and defined stylistic movements has come under scrutiny, with international museums adopting global, post‐colonial and supra‐national perspectives ranging far beyond the traditional Western‐centric model. Boundaries and hierarchies of value between different art forms have been dismantled. Issues of identity and representation have come to the fore, and renewed attention is being paid to museums’ responsibilities to their local communities.
How can museums keep pace and respond to these new imperatives? What happens when ‘the grand narratives’ are no longer considered fit for purpose? How are collections, exhibitions and displays to be rethought – according to what criteria, and for whom?
Download speaker abstracts and biographies
Programme:
11:00 – 11:25 On-Site Registration
11:30 – 11:45 Introduction by Caroline Douglas, Director, Contemporary Art Society and Martin Caiger-Smith, Courtauld Institute of Art
Part I: Museum Collections.
11:45 – 12:15 Christopher Bedford, Director, Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
12:15 – 12:35 Sook Kyung-Lee, Senior Curator, Tate Modern, UK
12:40 – 13:00 Hilke Wagner, Director, Albertinum, Dresden, DE
13.00 – 13.30 Discussion between the three speakers, moderated by Martin Caiger-Smith, Head of the MA Curating the Art Museum, Courtauld Art Institute of Art
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Part II: Exhibitions and Displays.
14:45 – 15:15 Denise Murrell, Co-Curator of Black models: from Géricault to Matisse at the Musee d’Orsay, Paris
15:15 – 15:35 E-J Scott, Curator of the Museum of Transology, hosted by Brighton Museum
15:40 – 16.00 Helena Reckitt, Reader in Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London
16: 00 -16:30 Coffee Break
Part III: Roundtable Discussion and Final Remarks.
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion and final remarks, moderated by Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper
This event is organised by the Contemporary Art Society in partnership with The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum.
Online booking now closed. Tickets available at the door.
Travel Bursaries are available for Museum Members, please apply by 1 May 2019. To apply and download the Contemporary Art Society Travel Bursary Form (.docx) click here
To book a place as a Museum Member and/or apply for a bursary please email rsvp@contemporaryartsociety.org.