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Posts tagged as “Europe”

Lecture: Visions of the Modern: Abstraction in the Postcolonial Middle East

After 1945, abstract art exploded in the Arab world, announcing a new cultural renaissance. In this talk, Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Art History, NYU, will link the different varieties of Arab abstraction to their counterparts in the broader Middle East and in Europe—and discuss how these varieties served as vehicles for competing visions of Arab modernity rooted in histories…

Varieties of Anxiety: A Global Perspective

December 10—11, 2019 Tuesday, December 10 Silver Center for Arts & Science 32 Waverly Place Room 101A and Silverstein Lounge New York, NY 10003 Wednesday, December 11 Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Room 905/907 New York, NY 10012 Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York in collaboration with NYU’s Center for European and…