CCS "Conversation" with Tom Eccles

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College invites you to a "Conversation"

Tom Eccles, Executive Director, CCS
behind the scenes look at his curatorial projects

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:30 p.m., Avery Theater

During his tenure as director and curator at The Public Art Fund, Tom Eccles presented more than eighty major exhibitions throughout the city, featuring works by such artists as Rachel Whiteread, Ilya Kabakov, Francis Alys, Mariko Mori, Julian Opie, Vik Muniz, Janet Cardiff, Martin Creed, Richard Long, and Barbara Kruger. He established an annual program of large-scale installations at Rockefeller Center, which has included major works by Jonathan Borofsky, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Louise Bourgeois, and Jeff Koons (Puppy).

He curated and produced an urban park program, commissioning new works for Madison Square Park by Wim Delvoye, Dan Graham, Mark Dion, Tony Oursler and others and created a collaborative network for extending museum retrospectives and exhibitions in the public sphere, working with Robert Storr at the Museum of Modern Art on Tony Smith in the City, as well as for the last three Whitney Biennials. Eccles curated a number of survey exhibitions of monumental sculpture including Roy Lichtenstein at City Hall; Willem de Kooning in the Park; Rodin at Rockefeller Center; and Keith Haring on Park. The Public Art Fund’s “Tuesday Night Talks” brought dozens of preeminent artists to speak at the Great Hall at Cooper Union; the series has continued at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School.

The “Conversations” series, sponsored by the Center for Curatorial Studies, includes lectures and more informal discussions by artists,curators, critics, and scholars who are invited to speak about recent work,current exhibitions, and important issues in the contemporary visual arts.
This “Conversation” is free and open to the public.

Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Contact: 845-758-7598
E-mail: franz@bard.edu