Symposium on Kandinsky

Symposium
Kandinsky: Looking Forward, Looking Back
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
June 11, 2011
10am - 5pm

Included in admission to special exhibition
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In conjunction with The Phillips Collection's Kandinsky and the
Harmony of Silence exhibition and on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Kandinsky's seminal treatise, Concerning the
Spiritual in Art, leading conservators, scholars, and artists
reconsider Kandinsky's important contribution to the history of
modern art and his lasting legacy on the art of today.

Speakers participate in three panels:

Technical:

    Elizabeth Steele
    The Phillips Collection

    Gillian McMillan
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    Narayan Khandekar and Erin Mysak
    Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical
    Studies

    Jay Krueger
    National Gallery of Art.

Historical:

    Elsa Smithgall
    The Phillips Collection
    Bibiana Obler
    George Washington University

    Vivian Endicott Barnett
    Independent scholar

Contemporary:

        Frank Stella and Leo Villareal
        Artists

        Klaus Ottman
        The Phillips Collection.

Organized by The Phillips Collection and The George Washington
University.

Elizabeth Steele
Head of Conservation
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st St., NW
Washington DC 20009
202-387-2151 x252
Fax: 202-387-2436


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