Contemporary Artists:
Classics and Comers
Robert Storr, Dean, Yale University School of Art.

Artists are customarily grouped by their age or by the moment they came to the fore. But the ties that connect one body of work to another, one artist to another, often ignore such generational distinctions. This lecture will explore the far more subtle patterns of creative interchange and competition that exist between older artists who are today working at the top of their form—Louise Bourgeois, John Baldessari, Lucian Freud, Ellsworth Kelly, Raoul De Keyser, Jasper Johns, and Gerhard Richter—and their younger counterparts who are equally active in defining contemporary art, among them Kiki Smith, Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuskavage, Odili Donald Odita, and Luc Tuymans.

3 Lectures: $60
($69 if purchased individually)

January 10
Estranged Images: Richter, Johns, Tuymans

January 17
Abstraction Plural: Kelly, De Keyser, Odita

January 24
The Beautiful and Unbeautiful: Freud, Yuskavage, Saville

This series is supported by the Mrs. Joseph H. King Fund.