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The 34th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium - Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection

Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

March 26-March 27, 2010

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents The 34th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium - Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, Friday, Mar 26, 2010 6:30 PM at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.

The 34th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium focuses on the confluence of contemporary art and photography, tracing the dynamism and diversity of today´s global photographic practice to the moments of ´rupture´ in art, photography and politics in the early 1960s when formalities and boundaries of various genres of visual art practice began to dissolve. This symposium will contextualize the exhibition Ruptures and Continuities: the Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, on view through May 9, 2010.

The speakers will discuss the genealogy of artistic practice surrounding contemporary photography and their own works of art, finding "ruptures and continuities" in their artistic, curatorial and scholarly practice in light of the histories of art and photography. The symposium intends not only to reflect the past and present of photographic art but also to project its future, particularly at a time when the current state of medium is deemed to be in crisis.

Friday, March 26, 2010
Opening Address
6:30 p.m.
Richard Misrach: Pastorals and Politics
Richard Misrach, Photographer

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Presentations
1:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Yasufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

"The Grass is Always Greener": Self-Performance in the Age of Globalization
Shelley Rice, Arts Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging and Department of Art History, New York University

Short Refreshment Break

Naoya Hatakeyama´s Photography: Its Environments Within and Outside
Naoya Hatakeyama, Photographer

Chance and Control: Photography as Contemporary Art
Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director, National Media Museum, United Kingdom

Questions/Discussion

At the conclusion of the symposium the audience is invited to join the speakers for a wine reception in the lobby of the museum´s Audrey Jones Beck Building and to view the exhibition Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection.

The 34th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium is made possible by a generous grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc.

Pictured:  Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait in Drag (regular wig), 1981, 92.199.1 MFAH purchase. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.