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DESCRIPTION:Jenni Sorkin will be coming to speak at the Seminar in New York
  & American Material Culture on Wednesday\, March 28\, 2012.  Her talk is 
 entitled “Ancient Modernisms.”Jenni Sorkin is Assistant Professor of Conte
 mporary Art\nHistory and Critical Theory at the University of Houston.  Sh
 e holds a\nPh.D. in the History of Art from Yale University\, an M.A. from
  the Center for\nCuratorial Studies at Bard College\, and a B.F.A. from th
 e School of the Art\nInstitute of Chicago.  From 2010 to 2011\, Sorkin was
  a Postdoctoral Fellow\nat the Getty Research Institute.  In 2010\, she co
 -organized Blind\nSpots/Puntos Ciegos: Feminisms\, Cinema\, and Performanc
 e for the Eighth\nInternational Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory in Me
 xico City.  Her\ncuratorial projects also include High Performance: The Fi
 rst Five Years\,\n1978-1982 (LACE\, Los Angeles\, 2003) and Judy Chicago: 
 Minimalism\, 1965-1973\n(LewAllen Gallery\, Santa Fe\, 2004). Sorkin’s wri
 ting has appeared in several\njournals\, including New Art Examiner\, Art 
 Journal\, Art Monthly\, NU:\nThe Nordic Art Review\, Frieze\, The Journal 
 of Modern Craft\, Modern Painters\,\nand Third Text.  She has also written
  numerous in-depth catalog\nessays on feminist art.  Her current project\,
  an in-progress book\nmanuscript entitled Live Form: Craft as Participatio
 n\, examines the\nconfluence of gender\, artistic labor\, and the history 
 of post-war ceramics from\n1945 to 1975.In her talk\, Sorkin will discuss 
 weaving and its unstable disciplinary status\nin the university. A primary
  focus of the talk will be the relationships\nbetween several prominent fi
 gures in the field of weaving\, including textile\nartist and printmaker A
 nni Albers\, fiber artist Sheila Hicks\, pre-Columbian\ntextile specialist
  Junius Bouton Bird at the American Museum of Natural\nHistory\, and pre-C
 olumbian art historian George Kubler at Yale University.Light refreshments
  will be served at 5:45 pm. The presentation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is
  required. Please click on the registration link at the bottom of this pag
 e or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu.PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall
  can only accommodate a limited number of people\, so please come early if
  you would like to have a seat in the main room.  We also have overflow se
 ating available\; all registrants who arrive late will be seated in the ov
 erflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Ancient Modernisms
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