Conversation (In-Person)
Six Paintings from Papunya

Join our friends at the Center for the Humanities, NYU, for an event that features anthropologist Fred Myers and art critic Terry Smith in conversation with curator Maia Nuku. Their discussion addresses six Papunya paintings that were featured in a 2022 exhibition in New York. They draw on several discourses that have developed around First Nations art—notably anthropology, art history, and curating as practiced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous interpreters. Their focus on six key paintings enables unusually close and intense insight into the works’ content and extraordinary innovation. Six Paintings from Papunya (Duke University Press, 2024) also includes a reflection by Indigenous curator and scholar Stephen Gilchrist, who considers the nature and significance of this rare transcultural conversation.

Co-sponsored by the Grey Art Museum, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts

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