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Dr. Frances Colpitt, art critic, corresponding editor to Art in America, and holder of the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, presents the problems of abstract painting in the postmodern/electronic age in her Tuesday Evenings lecture, Problems and Possibilities for Abstract Painting in Postmodernism.
Julie VandenBerg Snow, FAIA, here as the lead juror for the Forth Worth AIA annual Design Awards, presents her thoughts on architecture today and how those ideas relate to the designs and buildings produced by her “studio-based, project-driven” practice, Julie Snow Architects Inc.
David Pagel, curator, art critic, and associate professor of art at Claremont University in Claremont, California, presents Getting It Wrong in Just the Right Way: Diebenkorn's West Coastism, addressing the various ways some prominent California artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, have been out of step with prevailing trends and tendencies, often doing things wrong to get their art right.
Koki Tanaka, born in Tochigi, Japan, is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. For Tuesday Evenings, he presents the development of his playful and insubordinate art that, as he describes in an interview with Akiko Miki, a curator at Palais de Tokyo, has moved from an interest in “how the exhibition is structured to the ordinary process of making of the work, to how the content is developed.”
Katy Siegel is a professor of art history at Hunter College in New York, editor in chief of Art Journal, and a contributing editor to Artforum. She has authored numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists, such as Paul Pfeiffer, Takashi Murakami, Lisa Yuskavage, Bernard Frize, and Mark Bradford. She was the curator of High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, and is currently at work on a large, historical painting exhibition for the Wexner Center in 2013.