the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar

Alexander Alberro

The Place of Contemporary Art

This lecture took place on January 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union

Lecture introduction

This lecture will explore the relationship of contemporary art to social, political, economic, technological and cultural developments. It will ask whether the notion of contemporary art is limited to considerations of aesthetic change alone, or whether it can take into
account the rise of globalization, for example, or the development of a new technological imaginary.

About Alexander Alberro

Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Associate Professor
of Art History at Barnard College, is the author of Conceptual Art and
the Politics of Publicity (2003). His essays have appeared in a wide
array of journals and exhibition catalogues. He has also edited and
co-edited a number of volumes, most recently Art After Conceptual Art
(2006) and Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings
(forthcoming in 2009).

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