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A Study Day on Alfred Barr and Margaret Scolari Barr
The Center for Italian Modern Art is excited to present a Study Day on Alfred Barr and Margaret Scolari Barr, on Thursday April 23. Alfred Barr (1902-81), the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Margaret Scolari Barr (1901-87), art historian and author of the first book in English on Medardo Rosso, played a crucial role in introducing modern Italian art to the United States. MoMA hosted the landmark exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Art in 1949, and held the first museum show in the United States dedicated to Medardo Rosso in 1963. CIMA hosts a study day focused on the couple, their connections to Italy, to Medardo Rosso, and to the promotion of modern art more generally.
The Center for Italian Modern Art, located in SoHo, was founded in 2013 to promote new scholarship and dialogue around 20th-century Italian art through an annual exhibition, a fellowship program, and a variety of public programming. MEDARDO ROSSO, the subject of the 2014-15 season, is on view until June 27, 2015. CIMA is open for visits on Fridays and Saturdays at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm.
Entry to the Alfred Barr/Margaret Scolari Barr Study Day is free to CIMA members and students. All others $10. Espresso provided courtesy of CIMA sponsor Lavazza. Reception courtesy of Giovanni Rana Pastificio e Cucina.
FULL SCHEDULE
1.00pm - registration
1.30pm - Welcome: Heather Ewing, Executive Director, CIMA
Introductory Remarks: Alfred Barr and Gianni Mattioli
Laura Mattioli, President, CIMA
2:00pm - Out of the Chart: Barr's Struggle with Italian Art
Raffaele Bedarida, doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY; CIMA Fellow 2013-14
2.30pm - MoMA's Italian Art Collection: A Debate Between Alfred Barr and Gio Ponti
Davide Colombo, postdoctoral researcher, University of Milan
Margaret Scolari Barr and Medardo Rosso
3.00pm - Q&A; conversation; coffee break
3.30pm - Francesco Guzzetti, doctoral candidate at Scuola Normale, Pisa; CIMA Fellow 2014-15
4.30pm - Discoveries from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers at the MoMA Archives
Elena Cordova, Project Archivist, MoMA Archives
5.00pm - Alfred Barr and Josef Albers
Nicholas Fox Weber, Executive Director, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
5.30pm - Q&A; conversation
6pm - reception and tours of the Medardo Rosso installation led by CIMA's fellows
This event will be filmed.
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LocationCenter for Italian Modern Art (View)
421 BROOME STREET, 4th floor
New York, NY 10013
United States
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