CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF COLLECTING THE FRICK COLLECTION in association with

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN presents Preferring the Now: Two Centuries of Collecting Contemporary Art

A panel discussion with Michael Govan, Lucy Mitchell-Innes, and Mickey Cartin moderated by Inge Reist, with closing remarks by Melissa Chiu

Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 6:00 pm

THE FRICK COLLECTION 1 east 70th street new york city

Reception to follow

to reserve, visit frick.org/center/symposia or call 212-547-6894 $20 ($15 for Frick members)

This program has been made possible through the generous support of Ayesha Bulchandani-Mathrani Michael Govan is the CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of the LosAngeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Since joining LACMA in 2006, he has overseen the transformation of the twenty-acre campus with buildings by Renzo Piano and monumental artworks by , , Robert Irwin, , and others. Under Govan’s direction, the museum has also seen a dramatic increase in acquisitions and exhibition programming. From 1994 to 2005, Govan was president and director of the in New York, where he spearheaded the creation of Dia:Beacon. From 1988 to 1994 he served as deputy director of the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum. In that capacity his work extended to Guggenheim branches in New York, Venice, and Bilbao. Prior to that, Govan helped found MASS MoCA while at , where he studied art history and fine art. In 1996, Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash, who previously headed the worldwide Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art divisions of Sotheby’s, opened the New York gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Their goal is to place contemporary artists within a historical context, revealing a continuity of ideas and aesthetic virtuosity from the Modern era through the present day. The gallery is known for its exhibition program, which encourages an informed dialogue between emerging and established internationally recognized artists. Through surveys of twentieth-century masters, such as Jean Arp, Anthony Caro, Willem de Kooning, Leon Kossoff, Kenneth Noland, Roy Lichtenstein, and Nicolas de Stael, and solo exhibitions of Sarah Braman, Keltie Ferris, Martha Rosler, and Jessica Stockholder, Mitchell-Innes & Nash has advanced the careers of emerging artists and maintained the superior standard set by established artists. Mickey Cartin has been collecting since the mid-1980s. The Cartin Collection began with the purchase of a single painting, and, in the thirty years since, has grown to more than 2,000 works in all media, including early Flemish and Italian masters, fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, and nineteenth-century European paintings, as well as an extensive collection of postwar and contemporary art. Beginning in 2005, The Cartin Collection began to produce exhibitions in partnerships with museums, alternative spaces, and galleries in New York, Boston, Miami, and Hartford, as well as Paris and Berlin. The collection continues to loan extensively across all fields, periods, and media. Mickey serves on the board of directors of The Public Art Fund, The Master Drawings Association, and on several visiting committees at The Morgan Library & Museum. He is a former trustee of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Printed Matter in New York, and The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, where he served as its vice president and was active on its curatorial committee.

images on front Albert Bierstadt Ed Ruscha Donner Lake From the Summit, 1873 THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW #1, 1989 New York, The New York Historical Society © Edward J. Ruscha IV