In Conversation Artist Talks

Recorded via Zoom on Thursday, April 22, 2021

In its first-ever family conversation, the Neuberger Museum of Art welcomes Richard Mayhew and his children, Scott and Ina, for an exploration of how the members of this artistic family spend their lives influencing – and being influenced by – one another.

Recorded via Zoom on Thursday, March 11, 2021

Through photographs, sculpture, video, audience-activated and collaborative public art projects, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas addresses the role of popular visual culture in perpetuating discrimination and sociocultural ramifications, including gun violence, the relationship between the American sports industry and black men, the perpetuation of stereotypes through contemporary advertising, and the reframing of history and context.

Thomas was joined for this artist talk by friend, colleague, and For Freedoms co-founder Eric Gottesman, assistant professor of photography at Purchase College.

Support for this program is provided by the New York Community Trust—Yaseen Lectures on the Fine Arts.

Recorded via Zoom on Thursday, February 18, 2021

The Neuberger Museum of Art virtually hosted contemporary artist Allison Miller and artist, curator and writer Daniel Gerwin for an In Conversation Artist Talk focusing on Miller’s work, including two objects recently added to the museum’s collection.

This event is part of the Daniel P. Paduano and Janet W. Prindle Lecture Series

Filmed on Wednesday, April 29, 2019, at the Neuberger Museum of Art

Cuban-born installation and performance artist Tania Bruguera discusses her work, behavior art, immigration, and the relationship among art, politics, and life.

Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on February 6, 2019

Sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard discusses sculpture—including her work on view in A Gathering: Sculpture from the Collection—from the perspective of her personal history.

This event is part of the Daniel P. Paduano and Janet W. Prindle Lecture Series

Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on November 14, 2018.

Listen in as Jon Kessler, Tom Burckhardt, and Cassandra Hooper–all artists influenced and guided by the late Irving Sandler–share their memories of the beloved art historian, author, and distinguished professor at Purchase College.

Moderated by Tracy Fitzpatrick, Director of the Neuberger Museum of Art and co-curator of the exhibition Irving Sandler: Points of View, the conversation explores the group’s memories of Sandler, his extensive relationships with artists, and his sweeping narratives that offered a picture Abstract Expressionism and contemporary American art seen from the inside out.

Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on October 10, 2018

In this video, Alex Katz, American figurative artist, and Robert Storr, acclaimed art critic and curator, explore Katz’s formative paintings and sculptures on view in the exhibition Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s.

Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on September 26, 2018.

John Shearer, American photographer, and Hugh Price, U.S. activist and former President of the National Urban League, engage in a discussion exploring photography’s power to bear witness to events in American history, specifically referring to Shearer’s photographs from the 1960s and 1970s.

This event was part of the Yasseen Lectures on the Fine Arts

Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on March 28, 2018.

Thomas Rinaldi, author of New York Neon; Jeff Friedman, owner of New York studio Let There Be Neon; and Sarah Blood, a contemporary artist working with neon, explored fabrication, artistry, and the commercial and fine art histories of neon through a conversation moderated by Avis Larson, Neuberger curator of Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now.

PART II:   Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on November 29, 2017.

Panelists Seph Rodney, staff writer and editor of Hyperallergic, and artists Tomashi Jackson and Tariku Shiferaw trace genealogies of abstraction from Romare Bearden to today’s contemporary abstract artists.

PART I: Filmed at the Neuberger Museum of Art on November 29, 2017.

Panelists Seph Rodney, staff writer and editor of Hyperallergic, and artists Tomashi Jackson and Tariku Shiferaw trace genealogies of abstraction from Romare Bearden to today’s contemporary abstract artists.