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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CLARK CONFERENCE THE TWO ART HISTORIES: THE MUSEUM AND THE UNIVERSITY APRIL 9 AND 10, 1999 WILLIAMSTOWN, MA, (February 25, 1999) - The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will host the Clark Conference "The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University" on Friday, April 9, and Saturday, April 10, 1999. More than twenty speakers from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom will participate in the event organized by Charles W. Haxthausen, Director of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History, Williams College, for the Clark's division of Research and Academic Programs headed by John Onians. "The art museum and the university art history department are like continents drifting apart, each, increasingly, with its own intellectually ecology," says Onians. By looking at art history as seen by the museum and the university, the conference will examine the often different directions of these two main branches of the discipline, exploring how different values, traditions, and constituencies shape their respective practices and agendas. Admission is $50 for the entire conference, or $25 per day. For more information, reservations, or to receive notices of future Clark Conferences and Symposia, contact Judy Ensign at 413-458-2303, extension 324. The program will feature four sessions: "The Two Art Histories, Perspectives" (Friday morning): Dawn Ades, University of Essex; Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden; Andreas Beyer, Technische Universitaet Aachen; Ivan Gaskell, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; and Barbara Stafford, University of Chicago. "The Exhibition as Discursive Medium" (Friday afternoon): William H. Truettner, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Richard Kendall, independent scholar and curator; Mark Rosenthal, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Eckhart Gillen, Museumspaedagogisches Dienst. "Impressionism: The Blockbuster and Revisionist Scholarship" (Saturday morning): Richard Brettell, University of Dallas; John House, Courtauld Institute of Art; Patricia Mainardi, City University of New York; Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds; Gary Tinterow, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Michael Zimmerman, Zentralinstitut fuer Kunstgeschichte. Panel Discussion (Saturday Afternoon): James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums; Monika Wagner, Universitaet Hamburg; and Robert Rosenblum, New York University and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Clark Conferences The Clark Conferences constitute a new international forum for the discussion of issues raised by the study, presentation, and explanation of art, whether in universities or museums, exhibitions, or books. Each year a group of major scholars from around the world will come to the Clark to explore and debate a vital topic which might not otherwise be addressed. In Spring 2000, John Onians will organize the second Clark Conference, "Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art," addressing the issues raised when the art of several areas of the world is brought together in a museum, university course, book, theory, library, or database.