Minding the Time: New Dialogues with Old Master Drawings

Alexander Nagel, _The Tenses of Drawing_ Steffani Jemison, _Plant You Now, Dig You Later_ Katie Anania,_ “Like a Glowing Worm”: Carolee Schneemann, Leo Steinberg, and Pontormo_ Lorenzo Clayton and Timothy Corbett, _Preparations for the Divine: Sketching Practice as Moving Meditation_ Brett Littman, _How Does The Drawing Center Make History Present?_ Richard Tuttle, _Is the line/fulmination?_ Nova Benway, Panel ModeratorHow does looking at a drawing—an inherently portable art object—change the way we experience time and history? Which histories endure and which are lost? This theory-and-practice symposium will feature artists and art historians who are engaging with Old MASTER DRAWINGS AND PRINTS IN INNOVATIVE WAYS, using their portability as a model for re-thinking history. Speakers include Steffani Jemison, visual artist; Alexander Nagel, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Fine Arts, NEW YORK University; Lorenzo Clayton, professor emeritus of printmaking at The Cooper Union; Timothy Corbett, designer; Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center; and Katie Anania, postdoctoral fellow, the Morgan Drawing Institute. Following the presentations, Nova Benway, Assistant Curator at The Drawing Center, will moderate a panel discussion with the speakers. A symposium organized by the Morgan Drawing Institute in collaboration with The Drawing Center