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Left to right: Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog, 1994–2000; Katharina Fritsch, Madonnenfigur (Madonna Figure), 1987 (Installation view, Münster); Charles Ray, Tractor, 2004

"Sculpture After Sculpture"

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Anticipating the Moderna Museet survey bringing together the sculptural work of Katharina Fritsch, Jeff Koons and Charles Ray, the exhibition’s curator, Artforum editor-at-large and Graduate Art faculty member Jack Bankowsky, convenes a distinguished panel at Art Center College of Design to discuss the show-in-progress and the the critical issues it raises. Panelists include: Michael Fried - J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of numerous books including, most recently, Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon (Yale University Press, 2011). Isabelle Graw - Critic and co-founder of the Berlin-based journal Texte Zur Kunst, and the author of High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture (Sternberg, 2010). Michelle Kuo - Editor-in-Chief of Artforum, and co-editor with Scott Rothkopf of the magazine’s special issue “The Art of Production” (October 2007). Charles Ray - Esteemed L.A.-based sculptor whose work will go on view at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst and Kunstmueum in Basel, Switzerland, in June 2014 before traveling to The Art Institute of Chicago. Scott Rothkopf - Whitney Museum of American Art Curator and Associate Director of Programs currently at work on the first American museum retrospective devoted to Jeff Koons’s art. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations required. As you enter campus, you’ll find ample parking in the South/Student parking lot at the end of the main road. Please contact the Graduate Art Department at (626) 396-4222 with any questions.

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Ahmanson Auditorium
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Pasadena, California