general information
Event Dates
Jan 23, 2009 - Jan 24, 2009
Contact Information
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: 615-244-3340
Email Contact
places to stay
Homewood Suites by Hilton - Nashville Airport
thingstodo
At the Frist: Paint Made Flesh Symposium
The two-day symposium will offer compelling conversation about the role of figure painting as it has defined psychological and socio-historical conditions in Europe and the United States since World War II.
Featured keynote speaker is Dr. John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. Guest speakers include: Dr. Michael Bess, chancellor’s professor of history at Vanderbilt University;
Dr. Emily Braun, distinguished professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University New York; Dr. Susan H. Edwards, executive director and CEO of the Frist Center; Eric Fischl, figurative artist; Mark Scala, chief curator of the Frist Center; and Dr. Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in art history and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas-Austin.
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