Monday, May 09, 2016

Much ado about the wrong title

A Page With Two Horses. 1660 by Albert Cuyp
Kensington Palace officials were reportedly involved in a last-minute scramble to remove the word 'negro' from a painting moments before the Obamas arrived for dinner with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Read the whole article here


But what I find interesting is that  the real title of this painting is A Page With Two Horses, 1660 by Albert Cuyp; a well-documented painting from The Royal Collection. The article is incorrect in the title that it gives the painting.


Apparently it is also known as The Negro Page, which is what the offensive name plate said... I find it odd that instead of the real title (A Page With Two Horses), it had all this time a nickname title (The Negro Page) on the name plate.


Five gets you ten that when a name plate is re-affixed to the painting, it will say A Page With Two Horses, cough, cough.

Panel Discussion and Micro-Monuments Exhibition Opening

Presented by the Washington SculptorsGroup (WSG) and The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) 

Center for Hellenic Studies                                      
3100 Whitehaven Street, NW                                               
Washington, DC 20008                            
www.chs.harvard.edu                                               
Tel (202) 745-4411                                      

PANEL DISCUSSION
Friday, May 27, 2016 5:30-6:30 pm, House-A

EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION:      
7-9 pm, Main Building

Free and open to the public; reservations required  
RSVP by May 21, 2016 to events@chs.harvard.edu  

Parking is available on-site and on Whitehaven Street, N.W.   
 
The Washington Sculptors Group and The Center for HellenicStudies are pleased to jointly present this panel discussion in conjunction with the U.S. opening of the Micro-Monuments exhibition at the CHS campus after its international launch at the Salzland Museum in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The panel includes Paul M. Farber, Artemis Herber, Kenneth Lum, Sven Schipporeit, Svenja Müller-Schipporeit, and Elsabé Dixon, Moderator.    

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
 
Paul M. Farber, PhD is a scholar and curator based in Philadelphia. He is currently a Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Haverford College. Farber is also a founding co-curator and director of “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia,” which premiered last year at Philadelphia's City Hall.  
 
Artemis Herber completed her MFA at the University of Paderborn in Germany. Herber is currently the President of the Washington Sculptors Group, and works as an artist and curator for Transatlantic Projects.  
 
Kenneth Lum resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he is a Professor in the School of Design, at the University of Pennsylvania. Lum has exhibited widely, including in the São Paulo Biennial (1998), Shanghai Biennale (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), the Gwangju Biennale (2008), Moscow Biennial 2011, and the Whitney Biennial 2014. 
 
Sven Schipporeit, PhD, Heidelberg University, teaches at the University of Vienna. A Classical Archaeologist, his main focus lies on the interaction between religion, imagery, architecture, urban development and society, from archaic Greece to early Imperial Rome. 
 
Svenja Müller-Schipporeit, PhD, received her degree from Heidelberg University, and studied Classical Archaeology, Greek Philology, and Ancient History in Berlin and Heidelberg. She teaches at Vienna University. Her research interests lie in the relation of topography, urban and rural landscape, religion and cults, mentality and social structures in ancient societies.  

ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Elsabé Dixon is a conceptual artist working primarily with live organisms. Dixon has participated in artist presentations at the Textile Museum as well as the Smithsonian, Freer, and Sackler Museums in Washington, D.C. Dixon received her BFA in Art from the University of Averett, and her MFA from George Mason University. She is Vice-President of the Washington Sculptors Group.
 
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: The concept of “Micro-Monuments” conveys a global perspective through miniaturization as a symptom of our times that derived from diverse cultural backgrounds of the exhibiting artists. The exhibition explores the omnipresence of monuments as a universal idea in art within a trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural context of today. As an exhibition returning from Germany to the United States and its place of origin, the city of Washington, D.C., the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) creates an even more interconnected field between cultures, societies, and time through a cross-cultural collaboration.

Participating Artists: Julia Bloom, Greg Braun, Elsabe Dixon, Stephanie Firestone, Felicia Glidden, Carol B. Goldberg, Tom Greaves, Edel Gregan, Jonathan Guyer, Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson, Jin Lee, Leigh  Maddox, Jaqueline Maggi, James Mallos, Kass McGowan, Elizabeth Miller McCue, Jim Paulsen, Tatyana Schremko, Mike Shaffer, Lynda Smith-Bugge, Garret Strang, Lawrence S. Watson, Fabiola Alvarez Yurcisin.

Juried by Anne Reeve, Curated by Artemis Herber.

"Micro-Monuments" will be on view from May 27 – October 15, 2016 at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Open Monday – Friday 10am – 12pm / 2-4pm and by appointment