German/American Artistic Exchange during the Cold War
Archival Program Information
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Schedule
Saturday, March 21, 9:30 a.m.
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall

Admission is free. Reservations are required.
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall

Admission is free. Reservations are required.
9:30 a.m.: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Thomas Gaehtgens (Getty Research Institute)
SESSION 1:
German Artists in America/American Artists in Germany
9:45 a.m.: Joseph Beuys and Robert Morris: A Relationship with Many Differences
Dirk Luckow, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
10:15 a.m.: A Post-War Generation Working in Media at the End of the 1970s
Rudolf Frieling, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
10:45 a.m.: Conversation
John Baldessari, artist and Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute
11:15 a.m.: Break
11:30 a.m.: Blinky Palermo: Himmelsrichtungen/Cardinal Points
Lynne Cooke, Dia Art Foundation and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
12:00 p.m.: Panel Discussion
Moderated by Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute
12:45 p.m.: Break
SESSION 2:
German and American Intellectual Exchange
2:00 p.m.: Conversation
Lutz Dammbeck, artist and Sabine Eckmann, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
2:30 p.m.: Olympian Art: (Inter)national Proposals for Munich '72
Christine Mehring, University of Chicago
3:00 p.m.: Cold War and the Experience of Cultural Difference
Gregor Stemmrich, Kunsthistorisches Institute der Freien Universität Berlin
3:30 p.m.: Afternoon Break
3:45 p.m.: The Palermo Triangle: Beuys, Klein, Newman
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Harvard University
4:15 p.m.: Panel Discussion
Moderated by Sabine Eckmann, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
5:00 p.m.: Break
5:15 p.m.: Conversation
Peter-Klaus Schuster, Staaliche Museen zu Berlin and Thomas Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute
6:00 p.m.: Conference end
Thomas Gaehtgens (Getty Research Institute)
SESSION 1:
German Artists in America/American Artists in Germany
9:45 a.m.: Joseph Beuys and Robert Morris: A Relationship with Many Differences
Dirk Luckow, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
10:15 a.m.: A Post-War Generation Working in Media at the End of the 1970s
Rudolf Frieling, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
10:45 a.m.: Conversation
John Baldessari, artist and Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute
11:15 a.m.: Break
11:30 a.m.: Blinky Palermo: Himmelsrichtungen/Cardinal Points
Lynne Cooke, Dia Art Foundation and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
12:00 p.m.: Panel Discussion
Moderated by Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute
12:45 p.m.: Break
SESSION 2:
German and American Intellectual Exchange
2:00 p.m.: Conversation
Lutz Dammbeck, artist and Sabine Eckmann, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
2:30 p.m.: Olympian Art: (Inter)national Proposals for Munich '72
Christine Mehring, University of Chicago
3:00 p.m.: Cold War and the Experience of Cultural Difference
Gregor Stemmrich, Kunsthistorisches Institute der Freien Universität Berlin
3:30 p.m.: Afternoon Break
3:45 p.m.: The Palermo Triangle: Beuys, Klein, Newman
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Harvard University
4:15 p.m.: Panel Discussion
Moderated by Sabine Eckmann, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
5:00 p.m.: Break
5:15 p.m.: Conversation
Peter-Klaus Schuster, Staaliche Museen zu Berlin and Thomas Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute
6:00 p.m.: Conference end