The Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art is hosted by the University of Maryland's Department of Art History and Archaeology and by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Eight graduate art-history programs participate in the symposium, which provides an opportunity for advanced graduate students to present their research. The 2008 sessions will be held on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, at both the National Gallery of Art and the University of Maryland.
As part of the symposium, Alex Potts, the Max Loehr Collegiate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, will present the George Levitine Lecture on Friday, March 28. The title of his talk is "The Anti-Aesthetic and the Commitment to Art: Painting in Postwar Europe."
For more information on the Middle Atlantic Symposium, please write to Deborah Down.
