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Twenty-Sixth Annual Rebay Lecture: Darby English

In this lecture, Darby English, Starr Director of Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute, considers the intense traffic in ideas about art and culture that animated New York’s art world around 1971. In that year—just as newer forms of radical art practice such as Conceptualism and Earth art were gaining ground—late modernist painting and sculpture exhibited unexpected new capacities, and briefly restored abstraction’s historical alliance with urgent, and otherwise inexpressible, social and political quandaries. Formalism as activism? Let’s see.

The Hilla Rebay Lecture brings distinguished scholars to the Guggenheim Museum to examine significant issues in the theory, criticism, and history of art. This annual program is made possible through the generosity of The Hilla von Rebay Foundation.

Free on day of lecture, no advance ticket registration required.

Private reception immediately follows lecture.











When: Tue., Jan. 28, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Where: Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. (at 89th St.)
212-423-3500
Price: Free
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In this lecture, Darby English, Starr Director of Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute, considers the intense traffic in ideas about art and culture that animated New York’s art world around 1971. In that year—just as newer forms of radical art practice such as Conceptualism and Earth art were gaining ground—late modernist painting and sculpture exhibited unexpected new capacities, and briefly restored abstraction’s historical alliance with urgent, and otherwise inexpressible, social and political quandaries. Formalism as activism? Let’s see.

The Hilla Rebay Lecture brings distinguished scholars to the Guggenheim Museum to examine significant issues in the theory, criticism, and history of art. This annual program is made possible through the generosity of The Hilla von Rebay Foundation.

Free on day of lecture, no advance ticket registration required.

Private reception immediately follows lecture.

Buy tickets/get more info now