15 November, Mr. Steven Henry Madoff, a leading world expert on art education and an international curator who leads the Masters Program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York, gave a lecture about the development of art school under the new era background in Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum.
During the lecture, he summarized the teaching model of the art school in one hundred years with a developing timeline of art school in Europe and North America. Also, he discussed the history of art schools and new alternative models emerging across the world. In the mean time, he pointed that in the age of the Internet, of rapidly advancing technologies and economies, it is time to change the way we think about art schools, about artistic production and the roles of artists, curators, collectors, museums, and the art market locally and globally.
Except the lecture in Shanghai, Professor Steven also was invited by CAFA in Beijing and CAA in Hangzhou to address a speech.
About Steven Henry Madoff
Steven Henry Madoff, award-winning art critic, curator, poet, and educator has curated internationally and published widely over the last quarter of a century. He has served as Executive Editor of ART news magazine, is a Contributing Editor at Modern Painters and ART news, was President and Editorial Director of a division of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, lectures on contemporary art and education throughout the world, and has held the position of Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Art.
He is the founding Chair of the Masters in Curatorial Practice at the School ofVisual Arts in New York. His books include ArtSchool (Propositions for the 21st Century) published by MIT Press; Pop Art: A Critical History, from University of California Press; and Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, from Princeton University Press, among many others. His criticism and journalism have appeared regularly in such publications as the New York Times, Time, Artforum, Art in America, Art + Auction, Tate Etc., as well as ART news and Modern Painters. He is the authorof monographic essays on such artists as Marina Abramovic, Rebecca Horn,Kimsooja, and Ann Hamilton, among many others.
He has been a curator for the Venice Biennale and most recently directed a multi-platform program of exhibitions and events, “Host & Guest,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Heis the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. He holds hisPh.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Columbia University, where he was the Butler Scholar in the Humanities. He is currently at work on a book concerning the history and theory of interdisciplinary art practices from Wagner to the present.
