Social Engagement in the Art Market
Christie’s Education is delighted to offer this complimentary lecture as part of its series on Social Engagement and the Art Market. As the art world continues to re-evaluate its relationship with and definition of race and gender, Christie’s is proud to offer a platform to encourage open dialogue on intersectionality within the art market. This global lecture series invites scholars, artists, and market professionals to foster a deeper examination of social issues as they relate to the art market.
Upcoming complimentary webinars
Contemporary Indigenous Arts: Rising Voices, Vital Traditions
In the face of historical exclusions from the institutions and spaces of fine art, the field of contemporary Indigenous art has witnessed an unprecedented expansion over the last five years into the most prestigious exhibitions, museum collections, and global corners of the art world. Yet Indigenous artists still must navigate the seeming contradictions between tradition and contemporaneity alongside community responsibilities and the fraught outsider expectations of authenticity that accompany new and eager audiences and markets. This lecture provide an overview of the issues and developments in contemporary Indigenous art, focusing on how working artists navigate such concerns in diverse practices; recent breakthroughs and prominent recent inclusions in exhibitions like the Whitney Biennial and Venice Biennale; the founding of new galleries and institutions dedicated to Indigenous art, such as the Forge Project; and the intersections of contemporary art with the history, formation, and ongoing relevance of traditional Indigenous art markets and fairs in sites such as Santa Fe and Phoenix.
Speaker: Christopher Green Ph.D
Christopher Green is a writer and art historian whose research focuses on modern and contemporary Native North American art and global histories of Indigenous modernism, visual exchange, representation, and display. His criticism, essays, and reviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, frieze, Aperture, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. His scholarly research appears in ab-Original, ARTMargins, Winterthur Portfolio, MAST, and BC Studies. His research has been supported by the Dedalus Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the International Council for Canadian Studies, and the Sealaska Heritage Institute. He recently edited the volume Jim Schoppert: What Price This Pound of Whale? and Other Unpublished Writings (Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative), and is currently co-authoring a book on contemporary Tlingit art. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY and currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.
Date: October 11
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm EDT