The Art Basel Conversations program focuses on people producing, collecting, and exhibiting art.
This lively forum ranges from single artists describing their practice to larger panels featuring distinguished artists, collectors, museum directors, architects, curators, critics, gallerists, and publishers. Presenting their current and upcoming projects, and reporting on the challenges they face, these speakers provide both an insider's view and the opportunity for dynamic and inspiring dialog. After each Art Basel Conversations panel, there is time allotted for the audience to meet the panelists personally.
Art Basel Conversations is curated by Maike Cruse, Berlin. All talks will be available in high-quality video on artbasel.com and absolutartbureau.com
ART BASEL CONVERSATIONS
from Thursday, December 6, until Sunday, December 9, 2012 | 10am – 11am | Panel Discussion
11am – 11.30am | Meet the Panelists
Location | Miami Beach Convention Center, auditorium adjacent to Info Zone D. Free public access.
Thursday | Dec 6 | 10am – 11.30am | Premiere | Artist Talk | Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle, Artist, New York/New Mexico
In conversation with Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern, London
Friday | Dec 7 | 10am – 11.30am | Public/Private | Rethinking the Encyclopedic Museum
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Moderator | András Szántó, Author and Consultant to Arts and Philanthropic Organizations, New York
Saturday | Dec 8 | 10am – 11.30am | Asia Focus | Why Japanese Post-War Art Matters Now
Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture,The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Allan Schwartzman, Chief Curator, Inhotim, Minas Gerais; Director, Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
Mika Yoshitake, Assistant Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Moderator | Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sunday | Dec 9 | 10am – 11.30am | Artistic Practice | The Artist as Musician
Angela Bulloch, Artist, London/Berlin
Rodney Graham, Artist, Vancouver
Ragnar Kjartansson, Artist, Reykjavík
Ari Benjamin Meyers, Artist, New York/Berlin
Jim Shaw, Artist, Los Angeles
Moderator | Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery,
Alice Willi
