“Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts,” Christie’s Education’s 2018 Conference
Over the course of sixteen sessions, Christie's Education will explore women’s diverse contributions to the arts. The conference will be held in New York from June 26-27.
Christie’s Education is hosting its 2018 Conference Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts on June 26-27, 2018 in New York. It celebrates the significant roles women have played and continue to play in the arts and their markets. Sixteen sessions over two days explore women’s diverse contributions to the arts from a transnational and transhistorical perspective, reflecting global and historical diversity. Not advocating for a separate nor alternative history of art and its markets, the conference looks at the central role played by women in the creation, development, support and preservation of the arts and how their contribution has changed over time.
Sessions focus on women as artists, patrons and collectors of art and architecture, dealers and brokers, art historians and art critics as well as curators and preservers of culture. Including the presence of women in historical aristocratic patronage, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the contemporary art world in both emerging and established centres, the sessions will investigate a diverse range of topics.
Notable speakers include the artist Pat Steir who works in paint, printmaking and installation art. Her work is included in major public collections around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Tate Gallery, London; The MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. As described by Art in America about her work, “This is painting in a grand tradition.”
Program information
June 26–27, 2018 | 9:30am–5:00pm
Christie’s New York
20 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10020
Ticket Price: $235
Learn more at christies.edu.
