Lectures

    UNITED KINGDOM - lectures

    Association of Art Historians, 1991 Annual Conference, Kings College, London
    13 April 1991
    conference paper: Herbert Read and Psychoanalysis, delivered to the Annual Conference, Kings College, London


    Association of Art Historians, 1993 Annual Conference, Tate Gallery, London
    3 April 1993
    conference paper: The Sculptor as Superman: Henry Moore and Anish Kapoor,
    [repeated, Henry Moore Symposium, UEA, Norwich, 1998]


    Ben Uri Art Society, London
    2 June 1994:
    Frank Auerbach


    Chelsea Arts Club, London
    1 October 1997
    informal talk, in the "Artists Lunch" series


    Chesil Gallery, Portland, Dorset
    13 June 1996:
    Anthony Caro


    Courtauld Institute of Art, London
    2 November 1992:
    R.B.Kitaj and the Poetics of Diaspora, delivered to faculty and students


    Dulwich Picture Gallery
    25 September 1997
    gallery talk: Stephen Cox


    Hat Hill Sculpture Trust, Goodwood, Sussex
    11 May 1996:
    dialogue: Stephen Cox in conversation with David Cohen


    Imperial War Museum, London
    27 July 1988
    Paul Nash and the Avant Garde in the 1930s


    Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London
    23 September 1997
    dialogue: Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with David Cohen

    [part of the Masterclass series organised by LJS]


    Leo Baeck College, London

    1989:

    Bezalel and Jewish Art, a "shiur" (homily on weekly biblical reading) delivered to Rabbinical students

    1991:
    Jewish art and the constructions of self: Marc Chagall and R.B.Kitaj


    Manor House Society, Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London

    23 February 1992
    panel discussion: Who is Art For? Bernard Cohen, Gillian Jason, Glenn Sujo, Sam Sylvester, with David Cohen in the chair

    17 July 1996
    panel discussion: Graven Images. Andrew Graham-Dixon, Ardyn Halter, Griselda Pollock, with David Cohen in the chair

     


    Royal Academy of Arts, London

    1988:
    gallery talk: Henry Moore, delivered to students of British Art Studies, and to undergraduate students of the Courtauld Institute, London

    1992:
    Alexander Calder and Friends

    1994:
    debate: "Is Life-drawing fundemental in the education of the artist?", organised and chaired by David Cohen, with Jon Thompson, Jeffrey Steele, Ken Currie, Roy Oxlade, and responses from Jo Volley, Jacqueline Morreau, Liam Gillick.

    7 March 1994:
    Ruptures and Renewals: The fate of life-drawing in the twentieth century


    Royal Academy Schools, London

    17 May 1997
    panel discussion: Artist-Run Spaces: Norman Rosenthal, Jibby Bean, Tom Hale, Lynn MacRitchie, with David Cohen in the chair

    [in the Red Square series organised by RA students]


    Royal College of Art

    2 March 1998
    Making Claims for Alex Katz, at Alex Katz Symposium, organised by David Cohen. Other participants were Christopher Frayling, Kevin Power, Jane Lee, Robert Storr, David Sylvester, Merlin James, Maurice Cockrill, Timothy Hyman, James Reilly, Beat Streuli


    Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

    17 August 1995
    The School of London Abroad


    Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University

    15 November 1988:
    S.W.Hayter and the Abstract Expressionists


    Saatchi Gallery

    14 February 1998

    gallery talk: Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting


    Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

    24 July 1991:
    Francis Bacon, delivered at a teacher’s study day

    2 November 1991:
    Peter Fuller and the School of London, delivered at the symposium to coincide with exhibition of figurative painters [other speakers included Alistair Grieve, Michael Podro, William Jeffett, Jane Morris]

    9 November 1991:
    Frank Auerbach: Paradoxes of Process and Time

    5 December 1998
    conference paper: The Sculptor as Superman: Henry Moore and Anish Kapoor
    [revised version of paper first delivered at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference]


    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

    17 July 1995
    'Their Blood in Our Veins': School of London painters and the old masters
    [repeated at the Studio School, Washington DC, 1996; repeated at the New York Studio School, 1997]


    Spacex Gallery, Exeter

    6 February 1993:
    "Cruchy" and "Smooth": on difficultness in contemporary art, delivered at a symposium; [other speakers were Charles Harrison, Marjorie Allthorpe Guyton, Edward Lucie-Smith]


    Tate Gallery, London

    24 October 1991
    Henry Moore and the Great Traditions of Sculpture, delivered to the Friends of the Tate Gallery

    9 December 1992
    gallery talk: Figuring the landscape: Henry Moore and others

    5 October 1995
    gallery talk: British Neo-Romanticism

    5 August 1994
    R.B.Kitaj and the Poetics of Diaspora

    3 May 1996:
    British Art in the 1970s, delivered at the symposium, Is There a British Art? [other speakers included Keith Vaughan, Jules Lubbock, Marcia Pointon, Paul Wood]

    5 July 1996:
    ‘Seek the Spirit in the Mass’: David Bomberg and his pupils, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff

    13 April 1996:
    Roger Fry's Cézanne,
    [repeated at the New York Studio School, 7 November]

    6 January 1997
    gallery talk: Sickert, Bomberg, Auerbach

    21 August 1998
    Patrick Heron and the Pleasure Principle


    Tate Gallery, St Ives

    21 February 1998
    panel discussion: Imaging the Incomprehenisible, Ralph Freeman, Angela Weight, David Cohen (chair)


    EUROPE

    Gallery Gammelstrand, Copenhagen
    29 June 1991:
    British Surrealism

    Royal Museum of Art and History, Luxembourg
    19 October 1996:
    Francis Bacon, a dialogue with Brazilian choreographer Ivo Ismael

    International Association of Art Critics, 1992 Annual Congress, Vienna
    4 June 1992
    conference paper: The Centre as Periphery: R.B.Kitaj, "Diasporism" and the School of London


    UNITED STATES-lectures

    Consulate General of the Federal Republic of German, New York
    8 October 1998
    introductory remarks: Michael Heindorff exhibition

    City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York
    6 April 1995
    Fry, Freud, and Formalism, a lecture to faculty and graduate students

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    7 April 1995:
    In Search of Kitaj


    New York Studio School, New York

    29 October 1997
    ‘Their Blood in Our Veins’: The School of London and the Old Masters

    31 October 1997
    seminar: Bacon and Freud, delivered to students and invited guests

    7 November 1997
    seminar: Kossoff and Auerbach, delivered to students and invited guests

    14 November 1997
    seminar: Andrews and Uglow, delivered to students and invited guests

    21 November 1997
    seminar: Hamilton and Kitaj, delivered to students and invited guests

    13 May 1998
    panel discussion: Seeing Alex Katz: Four painters on his influence and originality, with Chuck Close, Rackstraw Downes, David Salle, Ena Swansea, with David Cohen in the chair.

    27 January 1999
    The Sculptor as Superman, or, Who’s afraid of Henry Moore?

    2 March 1999
    dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 1: Peter Schjeldahl in conversation with David Cohen

    25 March 1999
    dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 2: Roberta Smith in conversation with David Cohen

    20 October 1999
    dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 3: Hilton Kramer in conversation with David Cohen

    8 December 1999
    dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 4: Linda Nochlin in conversation with David Cohen

    5 April 2000
    dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 5: Jed Perl in conversation with David Cohen

    12 April 2000
    dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 6: Four Emerging Critics in conversation with David Cohen: Merlin James, Andrea Scott, Katy Siegel, and Alexi Worth


    Triangle Workshop, World Trade Center, New York

    12 October 1998
    The Melancholy of Historical Irrelevance

    17 October 1998
    panel discussion: Does criticism get the art it deserves? James Gardner, Suzanne Ramljak, Gust Vasiliades, Alexi Worth, with David Cohen in the chair


    Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

    10 February 1999
    Violence and Vitality: The Figure in Bacon and Moore


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