Spring 2010

Colloquium in Honor of Theodore Reff
Friday, April 9, 2010
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

Schedule of Events
All presentations take place in 612 Schermerhorn unless otherwise noted

9:00 | 6th Floor Schermerhorn Hall
Coffee Reception

9:30 | 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Welcome
Robert E. Harrist Jr, Columbia University
Introduction
Marjorie Musterberg, Independent Scholar
Propaganda in the Rue de Navarin
Peter Galassi, Museum of Modern Art
"Modern Art and Tradition" and Why it Matters
Roberta Bernstein, University at Albany
Matisse and the Return to Decoration
John Klein, Washington University

10:50-11:15 | Break

11:15 | 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Introduction
Mona Handler, Brooklyn College, Graduate Center of CUNY
"To Imitate the Chinese...": Henri Matisse and Far-Eastern Art
Petra Chu, Seton Hall University
Van Gogh to Gris
Lewis Kachur, Kean University
An Amateur in Africa
Michael FitzGerald, Trinity College

12:30-2:00 | Lunch

2:00 | 612 Schermerhorn
Introduction
Mona Hadler, Brooklyn College, Graduate Center of CUNY
Joseph Cornell's Observatories: Cases for the Stars
Kirsten Hoving, Middlebury College
Sleuthing Toward Matisse: Roy Lichtenstein's Artist's Studio and The Dance
Maria Morris Hambourg, Independent Scholar
Why So Sad? The Changing Image of Pierrot, 1684-1870
Judy Sund, Queens College, Graduate Center of CUNY

3:15-3:45 | Break

3:45 | 612 Schermerhorn
Introduction
Elizabeth Pendleton Streicher, Independent Curator
Olympia's Wink
Jane M. Roos, Hunter College, Graduate Center at CUNY
Fictions of Facial Representation: Paul Klee's "Portraits"
Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College
Presenting Ted
Frances Beatty, Richard E. Feigen Gallery

Closing Remarks, Theodore Reff

Wine Reception
The Judith Lee Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall, 8th Floor
Toast
Sharon Flescher, International Foundation for Art Research

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