Symposia & Lectures
Talks & Dialogue
Presented by the Contemporary Center and the education department; organized by Lee Kogan
2008
The Ties That Bind: A Conversation about Heritage, Authenticity, and War Textiles
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Steve Zeitlin, and Ariel Zeitlin Cooke
2007
Vernacular Photography
John Foster, Frank Maresca, and Brian Wallis
2002
Outside the Frame: Self-Taught Artists on Film and Screening of The Living Museum
Jessica Yu, Dr. Janos Morton, David Waldorf, and John Tursi
1999
Private Worlds: Classic Outsider Art from Europe
Roger Cardinal, Johann Feilacher, Robert M. Greenberg, Phyllis Kind, and Lee Kogan; moderated by John Beardsley
At the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
1997
Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being, by Stephen Prokopoff • The Mind of Henry Darger: On the Evolution of Blengins, by John MacGregor
1996
Sacred Waters: 20th-Century Outsiders and the Sea, by Gael Mendelsohn • Folk Arts and the Maritime Museum, by Peter Neill
At the South Street Seaport Museum, New York
1995
A World of Their Own: 20th Century American Folk Artists
David Butler, by William A. Fagaly • Purvis Young, by Cesar Trasobares • Howard Finster, by Norman J. Girardot
With respondents Gerald L. Davis and Lee Kogan; moderated by Joseph Jacobs
At the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
2008
The Ties That Bind: A Conversation about Heritage, Authenticity, and War Textiles
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Steve Zeitlin, and Ariel Zeitlin Cooke
2007
Vernacular Photography
John Foster, Frank Maresca, and Brian Wallis
2002
Outside the Frame: Self-Taught Artists on Film and Screening of The Living Museum
Jessica Yu, Dr. Janos Morton, David Waldorf, and John Tursi
1999
Private Worlds: Classic Outsider Art from Europe
Roger Cardinal, Johann Feilacher, Robert M. Greenberg, Phyllis Kind, and Lee Kogan; moderated by John Beardsley
At the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
1997
Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being, by Stephen Prokopoff • The Mind of Henry Darger: On the Evolution of Blengins, by John MacGregor
1996
Sacred Waters: 20th-Century Outsiders and the Sea, by Gael Mendelsohn • Folk Arts and the Maritime Museum, by Peter Neill
At the South Street Seaport Museum, New York
1995
A World of Their Own: 20th Century American Folk Artists
David Butler, by William A. Fagaly • Purvis Young, by Cesar Trasobares • Howard Finster, by Norman J. Girardot
With respondents Gerald L. Davis and Lee Kogan; moderated by Joseph Jacobs
At the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey