Highly recommended: Phillips Collection and Millennium Art Salon Symposium on Figurative Art

Image: iona rozeal brown, all falls down, 2008

Figurative Art Today: Between East and West

A symposium featuring artists, curators and collectors at The Phillips Collection
Saturday, June 27
1-5 p.m.


Prominent and diverse artists, curators, and collectors from DC, NY, and LA discuss the position of figuration today in relation to other contemporary art practices. Reaching beyond the United States into Europe, Asia, and Africa, the panel will also consider the dynamic interchange between Eastern and Western visual approaches.

The discussion promises to be deep, provocative, enlightening.

Please join us.

Program

Koan Jeff Baysa, independent curator
Glyphe

iona rozeal brown, artist
(afro-asiatic allegory) a3

Allan deSouza, artist
Out of Place: Bodies in Transition

Kristen Hileman, Washington, D.C. based curator
Flawed Figures/Moral Images?

Henry Thaggert, collector
Was Andy Warhol Black?

Vesela Sretenovic, curator of modern and contemporary art
The Phillips Collecton
moderator

This panel is co-organized by The Phillips Collection and Millennium Arts Salon (MAS). It coincides with the exhibition Paint Made Flesh on view at the Phillips through Sept 13, and represents a part of the MAS's 2008-2009 season program Between East and West.