Art History Seminars: Can you understand contemporary art?

Art History Seminars Spring/2011

Can you understand contemporary art?
Art interpretation lectures and art analysing practices

31 March, 7, 14, 21, 28 April, 2011
Ludwig Museum, Library, 2nd floor

Today`s lecture

Scandals of the modern and contemporary at scene
Lecturer: Katalin M. Káldi, art historian
Related work of art: János Sugár: Dirty money (2008)

Upcoming lectures

7 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
How do the media shape history?
Lecturer: Zoltán Kékesi, critic, literature historian
Related work of art: Harun Farocki: Immersion (2009)

14 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
Who is an artist and what is a work of art?
Lecturer: Hedvig Turai, art historian
Related work of art: Judit Kele: I am a work of art (1979-1980-1985/2009)

21 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
Should or must art deal with politics?
Lecturer: Katalin Timár, art historian
Related work of art: Csaba Nemes: Remake I-X. (2007)

28 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
A chest of money. A monument of the first Hungarian performance
Lecturer: Géza Boros, art historian
Related work of art: Bik van der Pol: Untitled (After Miklós Erdély) – Project for Moszkva tér (2003)

The lectures are in Hungarian.

Ticket price: 600 HUF