ABOUT THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum is devoted to the preservation, documentation, presentation and interpretation of the work of Isamu Noguchi. The Museum opened in 1985 as the fi rst and only museum in the country to be founded by an artist during his lifetime and dedicated to his work. The collection and exhibi-tions focus on Isamu Noguchi’s extensive production, articulating the cultural time in which he worked, the many major cultural fi gures with whom he engaged, and his infl uence on the art and design of today. The Noguchi Museum offers a variety of education and public programs, whereby the Museum’s diverse audiences are encouraged to investigate Noguchi’s work from myriad vantage points.

ABOUT JUDD FOUNDATION

Judd Foundation’s mission is to maintain and preserve Donald Judd’s permanently installed living and working spaces, libraries, and archives in New York and Marfa, Texas. The Foundation aims to promote a wider understanding of and appreciation for Judd’s artis-tic legacy by facilitating public access to these spaces and resources and by developing scholarly and educational programs.

ABOUT THE GLASS HOUSE

The Philip Johnson Glass House, a National Trust Historic Site, offers its 47-acre campus as a catalyst for the preservation and interpretation of modern architecture, landscape, and art; and as a canvas for inspiration and experimentation honoring the legacy of Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and David Whitney (1939-2005).

ARTISTSANDLEGACYA SYMPOSIUM

PRESENTED BYJUDD FOUNDATION,THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM&THE PHILIP JOHNSON GLASS HOUSE, A SITE OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011

The Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard) Long Island City, NY 11106

www.noguchi.org

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

Over the past several years, the directors of Judd Foundation, The Noguchi Museum and The Philip Johnson Glass House have met informally to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities they face as stewards to legacies of prominent fi gures in 20th century art, architecture and design.

At the 2010 College Art Association meeting held in Chicago, these institutions hosted a panel discussion titled In Considering Legacy, which called attention to the need for further discussion among artists on the challenges inherent to understanding future impact and in considering one’s legacy. Funded in part by a Partnership Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artists and Legacy: A Symposium is intended to provide a forum for learning and exchange among the many voices of participants capable of informing and providing valuable insight on this topic.

This symposium represents a collaborative effort between Judd Foundation, The Noguchi Museum and the Philip Johnson Glass House.

Made possible by a partnership grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Beyond the panelists, moderators and all participants, we wish to thank the following individuals for their participation serving as table hosts:

Alberta Arthurs

Susan Batton

Jack Cowart

Rainer Judd

Susanne Pandich

Amy Sadao

Ellen Salpeter

John Smith

Rena Zurofsky

Additional Acknowledgements:Will Martin, video production

Portrait of Fred Wilson by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy the Pace Gallery. Portrait of Joan Jonas courtesy of Collegeart.org.

NEXT STEPS

Attendance to Artists and Legacy is by invitation due to space constraints. Segments of the Symposium are being recorded in order to share with a wider audience. Forthcoming documentation will include a small publication and a short web video. Symposium guests will be notifi ed when this documentation becomes available.

Dorothy Dunn is Director of America:

Now and Here. A recognized cultural

leader and creative catalyst. She has

worked with the Smithsonian Institu-

tion, the Philip Johnson Glass House,

the Aspen Institute, AIGA and Target,

among others. Before joining America:

Now and Here, she was Director of Visi-

tor Experience at The Philip Johnson

Glass House, National Trust for Historic

Preservation and prior to that, Direc-

tor of Education at Cooper-Hewitt,

National Design Museum, Smithsonian

Institution. She was the recipient of

the inaugural Smithsonian Education

Achievement Award. During 2005 and

2006, Dunn was Director of Programs

at AIGA, the professional association

for design, where she repositioned

the International Design Conference

at Aspen, the world’s oldest forum for

business and design leaders.

Liam Gillick is an artist based in London

and New York. Gillick was selected to

represent Germany for the 53rd Venice

Biennale in 2009 and has had solo exhi-

bitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London;

Palais de Tokyo; Kunsthalle Zurich and

the Museum of Contemporary Art,

Chicago, among others. His work is

in the collections of many museums,

including the Guggenheim, New York.

Gillick has published a number of texts

that function in parallel to his artwork,

including Proxemics (Selected writing

1988-2006) (JRP-Ringier) and an anthol-

ogy of his artistic writing, Allbooks

(Book Works, London). Gillick has

contributed to many art magazines and

journals including Parkett, Frieze, Art

Monthly, and Art Forum. A major exhi-

bition of his work opened at the Kunst

und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesre-

publik Deutschland in April 2010. He

teaches at Columbia University and

Bard College.

DOROTHYDUNN

Moderator

LIAMGILLICK

Synthesis

WELCOME

Jenny Dixon Director, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum

PANEL DISCUSSION

FROM ESTATE TO INSTITUTION: WHAT WE WISH WE HAD KNOWN

Barbara Hunt McLanahanExecutive Director, Judd Foundation

Jenny DixonDirector, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum

Hunter PalmerDirector of Programs and Visitor Experience, The Philip Johnson Glass House

LUNCHEON AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

(In Lower Level Meeting Room)

Table Summaries

INTERVIEW - BEYOND THE BIG FOUNDATIONS:

HOW ARTISTS PLAN FOR THE INEVITABLE

Amy Sadao, E.D., Visual AIDS, interviews Christine Vincent, Study Director (In Lower Level Meeting Room)

ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION

THINKING ABOUT LEGACY

Yvonne Jacquette Joan Jonas Joel Shapiro Fred Wilson

SYNTHESIS by Liam Gillick

RECEPTION

Both panel discussions will be moderated by Dorothy Dunn, Director, America: Now and HereThe galleries will remain open until 6:00pm.

10:30am

10:35-11:30am

12:00-1:00pm

1:15-2:00pm

2:15-2:45pm

3:00-4:30pm

4:30pm

5:00pm

Program

Painter-printmaker Yvonne Jacquette

is perhaps best known for her aerial

panoramic landscapes of cities at night.

She has also illustrated books of poetry

and has worked as a set designer.

Her teaching experience in- cludes

the Moore College of Art in Philadel-

phia, Parsons School of Design and

University of Pennsylvania. One can

see Jacquette’s pastels, prints, and oil

paintings in collections at the Staatliche

Museum; Berlin, the Hirshhorn Muse-

um and Sculpture Garden, Washington,

D. C.; the Museum of Modern Art and

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New

York City. Jacquette also manages the

estates of her late husband, photog-

rapher Rudy Burckhardt and the poet

Edwin Denby.

Joan Jonas is a multimedia artist and

pioneer of video and performance art.

Her experiments and productions in

the late 1960s and early 1970s were es-

sential to the formulation of the genre

and her infl uence was crucial to the

development of contemporary art in

many genres. Jonas’ most recent work

explores the relationship of digital me-

dia and performance. She has received

numerous awards, including the Hyogo

Prefecture Museum of Modern Art

Prize at the Japan International Video

Art Festival, the Polaroid Award for

Video, and the American Film Institute

Maya Deren Award for Video. Jonas

has performed and exhibited her work

extensively throughout the world and

has had major retrospectives at the

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Van Ab-

bemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands;

and Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart,

Germany.

YVONNE JACQUETTE

Panelists

JOANJONAS

Since his fi rst exhibition in 1970,

Shapiro’s work has been the subject

of countless one-person shows and

retrospectives, most notably at the

Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Whit-

ney Museum, the Stedelijk Museum,

Amsterdam, the Walker Art Center,

Minneapolis, jointly with the Nelson-

Atkins Museum, Kansas City) and most

recently at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor

Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum

of Art. Shapiro’s work can be found in

numerous public collections includ-

ing the Museum of Modern Art, the

Whitney Museum and the Metropoli-

tan Museum of Art in New York alone.

Prominent commissions include the

United States Holocaust Memorial

Museum in Washington D.C., and a

commission for FAPE for the United

States Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. An

exhibition of his work is currently on

view at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne,

Germany through September 25, 2011.

Shapiro’s studio is in Long Island City.

Fred Wilson’s work has been featured

in over 100 group exhibitions, includ-

ing the 50th Venice Biennale (2003)

as the American representative, the

Whitney Museum of American Art

Biennial Exhibition (1993), and the 4th

International Cairo Biennale (1992). He

has had over twenty-fi ve solo museum

exhibitions internationally, and has

been the recipient of numerous honors

and awards. Among them, the John D.

and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Award (the “Genius Grant”), Chicago

(1999). Fred Wilson is represented by

The Pace Gallery, N.Y., and currently

lives and works in New York City.

JOELSHAPIRO

FREDWILSON