CONFERENCE
Alexander Archipenko Revisited: Current Scholarship

17 September 2005
Wollman Auditorium, Cooper Union, 51 Astor Place, New York City

9.30 a.m.
Registration and coffee
The exhibition at the nearby Ukrainian Museum will be open for viewing

Morning Sessions

10.30 a.m.
Welcome, Maria Shust, Director, Ukrainian Museum

10.40 a.m.
Alexander Archipenko
Frances Archipenko Gray, President, The Archipenko Foundation

Session 1
Chaired by Dr. Joan Marter, Professor of Art History, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey

11.00 a.m.
Vision and Continuity
Dr. Jaroslaw Leshko, Professor Emeritus, Smith College, Northampton, MA

11.30 a.m.
Discussion

Session 2
Chaired by David Cohen, Art Critic, The Sun; Gallery Director, New York Studio
School; Publisher and Editor, artcritical.com

11.45 a.m.
Archipenko in Nice (c. 1914-18)
Dr. Kenneth Wayne, Chief Curator, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY

12.15 p.m.
Alexander Archipenko in a Network of Cultural Exchange (1920-1923)
Alexandra Keiser, Research Curator, The Archipenko Foundation

12.45 p.m.
Discussion

1.00 p.m.
Lunch Break

Afternoon Sessions

2.30 p.m.
Opening remarks, Dr. Myroslawa Mudrak, Professor of Art, Ohio State University

Session 3
Chaired by Dr. Myroslawa Mudrak

2.35 p.m.
The Style and Status of the Modern Artist: Archipenko in the Eyes of the
Italian Futurists
Maria Elena Versari, Ph. D. Candidate, History of Art, Scuola Normale
Superiore, Pisa, Italy

3.05 p.m.
Alexander Archipenko and the De Stijl Movement
Dr. Marguerite Tuijn, Researcher, Department of 20th Century Art and History,
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

3.35 p.m.
Discussion

3.50 p.m.
Coffee Break

Session 4
Chaired by Dr. Valerie Fletcher, Curator of Modern Sculpture and Painting,
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

4.15 p.m.
Combining Style and Stylization: The Case of Alexander Archipenko
Dr. Marek Bartelik, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cooper Union for
the Advancement of Science and Art, New York

4.45 p.m.
A Study of Alexander Archipenko's Plexiglas Sculptures
Dr. Deborah Goldberg, Professor, School of Visual Arts; and Lecturer,
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York

5.15 p.m.
Discussion

5.30 p.m.
Closing remarks, Dr. Myroslawa Mudrak

6-7 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception at The Ukrainian Museum

Seating is limited. Please register early ($ 60 adults, $ 40 Ukrainian Museum
members, $ 20 students).

For further information please contact:

The Archipenko Foundation
P.O. Box 247
Bearsville, NY 12409
Phone: 845.679.8191
administrationarchipenko.org
www.archipenko.org