Symposium: "Art in a Global Context"
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Keynote Address

Introduction: Ned Rifkin, Undersecretary for Art, Smithsonian Institution

Presenter: Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "Santayana's Boomerang and Barr's Torpedo: On the Unity of American Art"

This three-day symposium looked at American art in a global context—from circum-Atlantic migrations in the eighteenth century to European training and travel in the late nineteenth century; from the export of U.S. culture and media in the twentieth century to the impact of immigration and globalization on the nation's visual arts in the new millennium.

For more information: http://www.americanart.si.edu/research/symposia/2006/