Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Ave at 89th St
New York, NY
www.guggenheim.org/publicprograms
On view at the Guggenheim Museum through October 8, 2012, the extensive mid-career survey Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective features more than 70 color photographs and five video installations in the most comprehensive museum exhibition of the artist’s work to date. Join us in September and October for a series of dynamic exhibition-related public programs, including a half-day symposium and online forum, an evening lecture, and daytime programs including a conservation tour and film program assembled by the artist.
SYMPOSIUM
Empathy, Affect, and the Photographic Image
Friday, September 21, 4pm
Featuring a series of short talks and engaging group conversation, leading scholars gather to discuss the role that empathy plays in the interactions among photographer, subject, and viewer. Organized by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, and moderated by George Baker, University of California, Los Angeles. Additional speakers include Johanna Burton, Bard College; Carol Mavor, University of Manchester, and Peggy Phelan, Stanford University.
The symposium is immediately followed by a private reception and includes an exhibition viewing of Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective.
Free for students with valid ID and advance online registration.
For tickets, visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms or call the Box Office at 212 423 3587.
LECTURE
The Portrait in Contemporary Photography
Tuesday, October 2, 6:30pm
This lecture by Carol Armstrong (Yale University) tracks the shift to photographic portraiture in the 19th century and the further shift in photography in the 1970s and 1980s toward large-scale imagery and references to art history. Looking at changing concepts of personhood against the historical background of portraiture in painting and other traditional mediums, Armstrong examines the place of portraiture in contemporary photography on a global stage.
The lecture is immediately followed by a private reception and includes an exhibition viewing of Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective.
Free for students with valid ID and advance online registration.
For tickets, visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms or call the Box Office at 212 423 3587.
FILM SCREENINGS
Rineke Dijkstra Selects
Fridays, August 31 and September 7, 14, 21, 28, 1pm
Blind Kind, 1964
Dir. Johan van der Keuken, 25 minutes, 35mm
Courtesy Mrs. N van der Lely and EYE Film Instituut Nederland
Blanche-Neige Lucie, 1997
Pierre Huyghe, 4 minutes, DVD
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery and Pierre Huyghe
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999
Mark Leckey, 15 minutes, DVD
This unique program of film and video works assembled by Rineke Dijkstra includes Blind Kind, Johan van der Keuken’s poetic short documentary about a school for blind children in Amsterdam, which captures firsthand the children’s insight into their perception of the world around them, as well as Pierre Huyghe’s Blanche-Neige Lucie (1997), his short film capturing the struggle of Lucie Dolène, who sued Disney to regain possession of the copyright to her own voice as used in the French-dubbed version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; and Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), Mark Leckey’s acclaimed short film portraying British nightlife from fragments of found video footage. Films run sequentially starting at 1 pm.
Film screenings are free with museum admission and take place in the New Media Theater, located in the Sackler Center for Arts Education. Film screenings are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
For more information and a complete schedule, visit guggenheim.org/filmscreenings.
ONLINE FORUM
The Greater Good
Monday–Friday, September 24–28
In conjunction with Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective and the on-site symposium “Empathy, Affect, and the Photographic Image” on September 21, engage with leading thinkers in an open online forum to discuss the complex nature of empathy and its effect on our morals and motivations. Contribute your voice to the virtual conversation as it develops throughout the week, including in a dynamic live chat with diverse experts culled from a wide range of fields.
For more information, visit guggenheim.org/forum.
TOUR
Conservator’s Eye Tour
Led by Jeffrey Warda, Conservator, Paper
Friday, September 28, 2pm
Free with museum admission on the day of the tour; no advance registration required.
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam. The New York presentation of the exhibition is supported in part by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Netherlands Cultural Services, and the Leadership Committee for the Guggenheim Museum’s 2012 Photography Exhibitions: Marian Goodman Gallery, Henry Buhl, and Eugene Sadovoy, as well as by Ann and Steven Ames, Lori and Alexandre Chemla, Cari and Michael J. Sacks, John L. Thomson, and those who wish to remain anonymous.
