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Every year the Getty Research Institute (GRI) hosts a series of presentations of work in progress in art history and the humanities. The purpose of the series is to promote discussion of current topics and themes among interested scholars and students. Presentations, followed by roundtable discussions, take place at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles.
The guest organizer for Works in Progress in 2007–2008 is Anne Friedberg, professor and chair in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
Works in Progress Focuses on Contemporary Artists
For the last decade, the Research Institute's annual Works in Progress series has covered topics ranging from "Questions on the Death and Life of Images in Africa" to "Holy Persons, Human Passions." A renewed interest in the program was sparked in 2004–2005 when the focus was placed on contemporary artists in relationship to the GRI's research theme "Duration." The series spotlighted practicing artists and was conceptually developed by Miwon Kwon, associate professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Guest artists included Mary Kelly, Simon Leung, Barbara Kruger, and Michael Asher. In 2006–2007 Kwon continued this focus, pairing artists as presenters or respondents with scholars in the arts and humanities to cast a variety of perspectives on creative practice as it unfolds.
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