Sunday, May 31, 2009

SESSION 1: The Awareness of Time

Main Gallery

Moderated by Kulapat Yantrasast (Watch Yantrasast's overview .)

• Thomas W. Lentz (Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museum) "Teaching the Past in New Spaces" (Watch Lentz's overview. )
• Edwin Chan (Pertner, Gehry Partners LLP)
• David Jaffe (Senior Curator, The National Gallery, London) "To Display or to Enhance"
• Philip Kennicott (Culture Critic, The Washington Post) "Solitude and Faith in the Museum" (Watch Kennicott's overview.) 

SESSION 2: Placing Old Masters

Entrance Gallery

Moderated by Francesca Herndon-Consagra 

• Deborah Martin Kao (Head Curator, Harvard Art Museum, and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Fogg Museum), "Installing Art in the 'Museum without Walls'"
• John Vinci (Architect, Vinci-Hamp Architects) "The Limitations of Placing Art in Inflexible and Flexible Spaces"
• Charles Venable (Director, Speed Museum) "Who is the Audience for Old Masters?" (Watch Venable's overview. )
• Judith Mann (Curator of European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum) "Curatorial Input into the Design Process" The Myth of the Universal Curator and the Role of the Educator" (Watch Mann's overview. )

Monday, June 1, 2009

SESSION 3: Illuminating Space

Cube Gallery

Moderated by Kulapat Yantrasast 

• Andreas Henning (Curator of Italian Paintings, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) "The Elective Affinity of Light and Color" (Watch Henning's overview.)
• Chris McVoy (Senior Partner, Steven Holl Architects) "Dynamic Light"
• Stephan Wolohojian (Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator and Head of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum) "Skylights in Art Galleries"
• Philip Atkinson (Exhibition and Installation Designer, Saint Louis Art Museum) "Art, Space, and Daylight Solutions"

SESSION 4: Shaping Encounters

Main Gallery

Moderated by Francesca Herndon-Consagra

• Alan Chong (Curator of the Collection, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) "Is the Museum Gallery a Room or a Vista?"
• Fred Wilson (Artist)
• Toshiko Mori (Principal, Toshiko Mori Architect, and Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Harvard University) "Authentic Experience" 

For more photos from this exhibition, please visit the Pulitzer's Flickr page.