7/16/2020 Art Seminar Group Please retain for your records SUMMER • AUGUST 2020 Tuesday, August 4, 2020 GUESTS WELCOME 1:30 pm via Zoom Pissarro on Pissarro: Camille Pissarro's Worlds Joachim Pissarro, Bershad professor of art history and director of the Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College, CUNY/City University of New York. This talk will provide a unique look into Joachim Pissarro’s personal journey in discovering the work and personality of his great-grandfather Camille Pissarro. Joachim Pissarro will help us explore Camille Pissarro’s complex phenomenal imagination, an unusually rich, innovative visual mind, a vast curiosity about techniques of all sorts, an open mind towards his colleagues, and a strongly defined set of intellectual positions. Joachim Pissarro is currently the Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College, CUNY/City University of New York. He was a Curator at MoMA’s Department of Painting and Sculpture. His teaching and writing presently focus on the challenges facing art history due to the unprecedented proliferation of art works, images, and visual data. He co-authored a book on this topic with David Carrier, entitled Wild Art. In the same vein, he also taught a seminar on Michael Jackson: The Contemporary Representation of a Cultural Icon. He curated the show “Klein & Giacometti: In search of the Absolute in the Era of Relativity” at Gagosian Gallery London in summer 2016. His latest book is titled Wild Art (Phaidon) and his forthcoming book (Penn State University) is co-authorized with David Carrier. He has had two major exhibitions in Paris in 2017, Pissarro à Eragny at the Musée du Luxembourg along with his catalogue essay L’Eragny de Pissarro (co-authored with Alma Egger) and Olga Picasso at the Musée Picasso, Paris along with his catalogue essay Il n’ya pas eu d’époque néo-classique chez Picasso—seulement une époque Olga. Other recent writings include the book Individualism and Inter-Subjectivity in Modernism: Two Case Studies of Artistic Interchanges – Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne; Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and the essay Joseph Beuys: Set Between One and All. $10 fee for guests and subscribers Tuesday, August 11, 2020 MEMBERS ONLY 1:30 pm via Zoom Virtual Tour of Hillwood Museum, Washington DC Kate Markert, executive director, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens will welcome ASG to Hillwood Wilfried Zeisler, chief curator, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens will be our tour guide Join us for a virtual tour of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, led by Dr. Wilfried Zeisler, Hillwood’s chief curator! Founded by businesswoman and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood has endowed the country with the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia, a distinguished eighteenth-century French decorative art collection, and twenty-five acres of serene landscaped gardens and natural woodlands for all to enjoy. In these unprecedented times, Hillwood is excited to conduct a special presentation for ASG members to enjoy from home via live video chat. In this hour-long live tour, Dr. Zeisler will share highlights of the collection, focusing on objects that are beautifully and finely crafted, made of exquisite materials, and have royal connections. By exploring the collection, guests will see and experience the delicate decoration and superb craftsmanship that guided Marjorie’s collecting taste for the rest of her life. Kate Market became director of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, DC in 2010. Prior to joining Hillwood, Kate was Associate Director, Director of Development and Communications, Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Walters Art Museum; Director of Development and Communications, Deputy Director and Acting Director at Cleveland Museum of Art; and Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. She also served as Assistant and Associate Registrar at the Baltimore Museum of Art and worked at Johns Hopkins 7/16/2020 Art Seminar Group Please retain for your records SUMMER • AUGUST 2020 University. Kate earned a master's degree in Art History at the University of Maryland College Park, during which time she was the only full time staff member of its art gallery, and completed a master's degree in business at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Wilfried Zeisler is Hillwood’s chief curator. He is a graduate of Sorbonne University and the Ecole du Louvre, Paris. Wilfried has written extensively on French and Russian decorative arts, including several articles and contributions to books such as Artistic Luxury Fabergé Tiffany Lalique (2008). Wilfried’s dissertation, L’Objet d’art et deluxe français en Russie (1881-1917) [French Objets d’art and Luxury Goods in Russia], was published in Paris in 2014. Between 2009 and 2011, he has participated in and curated exhibitions in Paris and Monaco. At Hillwood, he has curated Splendor and Surprise: Elegant Containers, Antique to Modern (2015), Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter (2016), Fabergé Rediscovered (2018), Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces (2019), and Natural Beauties: Exquisite Works of Minerals and Gems (2020). Wilfried co-authored Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris (2015), and is the author of Fabergé Rediscovered and Vivre la Belle Epoque à Paris -- Paul de Russie et Olga Paley, both published in 2018. Members-only program, no fee .