Events

Webinar Series
June 15 to June 29, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET

Between the Two: Art and Sexuality in 1960s New York, a webinar series that explored gender, sexuality, and eroticism in the art of early 1960s New York, with a particular focus on ideas and artists circulating around Pop, Performance and Neo-Dada.

Webinaire avec Géraldine Lefebvre
22 mai 2023 à 18h CET / 12pm ET

This webinar, presented in French by Géraldine Lefebvre, centered Léon Monet, brother of Claude Monet, and distinguished art collector, on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Luxembourg Museum, “Léon Monet, frère de l’artiste et collectionneur”, curated by Lefebvre.

A virtual conversation
November 17, 2022

The WPI hosted Special Agent Christopher McKeogh from the Art Crime division of the FBI. SA McKeogh gave a presentation on some of the notable cases he’s seen in recent times, what to look out for, and what art world experts can do to fight back against these fraudulent activities.

A virtual conversation Frank Stewart and Chester Higgins, Jr.
November 9, 2022 at 6:30 pm ET

In celebration of the launch of the Romare Bearden Papers on the Digital Archives, the WPI hosted a webinar featuring renowned photographers Frank Stewart and Chester Higgins, Jr., in a conversation moderated by Dalila Scruggs, Curator of Photography and Prints at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

A Pop Places webinar
October 11, 2022

Leo Castelli established his gallery’s direction when it opened in the late 1950s by exhibiting the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Their art marked a shift away from the prevailing mode of abstract expressionism by employing objects and signs from the everyday environment, popular culture, and the mass media. By the mid-1960s the Castelli Gallery was considered among the most influential “Pop Places,” exhibiting works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist along with that of Johns and Rauschenberg. Bernstein, who frequented the Castelli gallery after arriving in New York in 1966 as an art history graduate student examines the origins of the galley as center for the various directions of Pop, including her personal experiences.

A Pop Places webinar
October 4, 2022

Richard (Dick) Bellamy opened the Green Gallery on West 57th street in Fall 1960. The gallery’s first eighteen months experienced paltry sales. However, with the explosive arrival of Pop art in America, the gallery became a go-to-source for the “new” art. Tom Wesselmann’s gallery debut featured his Great American Nude and Still Life paintings that were swiftly snatched up by committed collectors as they vied for the artist’s latest artworks. This webinar draws on the author’s research for the forthcoming monograph devoted to the stylistic development and reception of Wesselmann’s most famous body of work, the Great American Nude series (1961–1969/73).