Category Archives: Speeches & Talks

“Nuit Sartre”

vendredi 7 et samedi 8 juin 2013, ENS, 7 pm-7 am

“Mark Rothko as a Cultural Bridger” : Thursday May 9th 2013

8th International Conference “PERSON. COLOR. NATURE. MUSIC”    Art Teacher Union in co-operation with Department of Art and Design of Daugavpils University and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre invites you to participate in the 8th International Conference “PERSON. COLOR. NATURE. MUSIC” Rothko and Abstract expressionism May 8-12, 2013 Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

Rencontre autour de Gilberto Gil, Sartre et le Brésil

Mardi 23 avril 2013, 12h-14h, Salle Dussane, 45 rue d’ULm 75005 Paris Dans le cadre du séminaire “Géopolitique de Sartre” et en prévision de la Nuit Sartre du 7 juin 2013, l’ENS accueille une personnalité exceptionnelle, Gilberto Gil, homme politique, musicien, intellectuel qui parvint à faire sortir les enfants démunis des favellas (bidonvilles) de Rio de Janeiro par la pratique de la musique : [...]

“Conférences sur l’art américain”

Musée des Beaux Arts, Chambéry
lundi 21 janvier 2013 à 20h 30: “Un jour, ils auront des peintres, 1929-1950″
lundi 28 janvier 2013 à 20h 30: “Vers une galerie leader : les stratégies de Leo Castelli, 1950-2000″

“Magiciens de la terre: une exposition légendaire”

mardi 4 Décembre 2012, Düsseldorf Kunstschule

Conférence d’Annie Cohen-Solal, jeudi 29 novembre 2012 à 19h, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence

La conférence portera sur Leo Castelli. Leo Castelli, né Leo Krauss le 4 septembre 1907 à Trieste est décédé le 21 août 1999 à New York (États- Unis), il était un des grands marchands d’art international et galeriste américain. Il fut l’un des plus importants promoteurs de l’expressionnisme abstrait américain, du pop-art et des divers [...]

“Leo Castelli: The First Global Gallerist”

Schemel Forum, “World Affairs Luncheon Seminar” University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 2 Novembre 2012, 12:30 am

“Interculturalité dans le monde des arts plastiques: l’exemple de Mark Rothko”

colloque international “Interculturalités!?”, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 12-14 septembre 2012

“L’arte secondo Leo, conversazione con Marco Pacioni”

Cortona Mix Festival, 31 juillet 2012

“Sartre and Virginia Woolf”

My Night with Philosophers”, Institut Français de Londres, 8 juin 2012

“Le marchand d’art comme entrepreneur: Paul Durand-Ruel (19°siècle), Leo Castelli (20°siècle), Larry Gagosian (21°siècle)”

Conference at ESCP Europe
October 4, 2011
5:00-8:00 pm
Paris, France

“First Insights on Sartre’s Conferences du Havre, 1932-1933″ Keynote Address Sartre UK Society Annual Conference 2011

September 16, 2011
11:45 am
Institut Français
South Kensington, London

Lecture on Leo Castelli in Monte San Savino, Invited by the Associazione Salomone Fiorentino

August 28, 2011
10:30am

“Leo Castelli, Premier Galleriste Global”

July 12, 2011
6:30-8:30pm
Musée Garnet
Aix-en-Provence, France

Leo Castelli & Ileana Sonnabend: la leggendaria coppia dell’arte e la loro Venezia

June 30, 2011
6:30pm
Collezione Peggy Guggenheim
Dorsoduro 704, Venezia

Keynote Address of the North American Sartre Society Annual Conference Sartre, premier penseur global : des conférences inédites du Havre aux révolutions d’aujourd’hui

April 27, 2011
7:00-8:00pm
Librarie Gaillmard de Montréal
Montreal (Quebec), Canada

Leo Castelli: The First Global Gallerist

October 25th, lunchtime
World Affairs Briefings Luncheon Series
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania

Nuit de la Philosophie: Sartre

April 7, 2011
7:00pm-midnight
Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP)
Aix-en-Provence, France

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

March 29, 2011
7:00-8:00pm
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Museum Auditorium
Fort Worth, TX

Colloque: L’actualité de Jean-Paul Sartre: philosophie, littérature, politique

March 17-18, 2011
Sartre International Conference
Université de Lucerne, Institut des Sciences de la Culture et Département de Philosophie
Luzern, Switzerland

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

February 19, 2011
2:00-4:00pm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Pillsbury Auditorium
Minneapolis, MN

“Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir et les Etats-Unis”

February 15, 2011
12:00-1:00pm
UCLA French Department
Los Angeles, CA

Discussion with Eli Broad and Jeffrey Deitch on ‘Leo Castelli & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli’

February 14, 2011
6:00-8:00pm
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA

“Leo Castelli & His Circle: How Rauschenberg, Johns, Warhol, and All the Others Became American Icons”

February 11, 2011
6:00-7:00pm
Academy Art Museum
Easton, MD

“Leo Castelli, un gallériste global ancré dans la Toscane de la Renaissance

February 8, 2011
12:00pm
Musée des Beaux Arts
Ottawa, Canada

“La réinvention du métier de galériste dans les Etats-Unis du XXe siècle ‘Tuscany’”

February 7, 2011
2:30pm
Carelton University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

“Leo Castelli, a Global Gallerist Anchored in Renaissance Tuscany”

February 5, 2011
3:00-5:00pm
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), in partnership with the Canadian Art Foundation
Toronto, Canada

Interview Annie Cohen-Solal

February 4, 2011
5:00/5:30pm
Radio Communautaire Francophone

Interview Annie Cohen-Solal

February 4, 2011
4:30pm
Radio Canada Toronto
At l’Alliance Française

“Sartre, intellectuel global et engagé: est-ce toujours d’actualité?”

February 4, 2011
2:30-4:00pm
Alliance Français
Toronto, Canada

Interview Annie Cohen-Solal

February 3, 2011
10:00am
Radio Canada, Montréal

“Leo Castelli, galériste global, le réseau Castelli en Maison de Savoie”

February 3, 2011
1:00-4:00pm
Université de Montréal
Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques
Montreal, Canada

“Leo Castelli, un galériste global ancré dans la Toscane de la Renaissance”

February 2, 2011
5:00-8:00 pm
Musée des Beaux Arts
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Canada

“Leo Castelli, A Global Gallerist Anchored in Renaissance Tuscany”

January 27, 2011
7:15-9:00pm
Spanish Portuguese Synagogue Auditorium
70th Street & Westend Avenue
New York, NY

“Leo Castelli and his Role in the Museum World”

January 21, 2011
12:00-2:00pm
University of Southern California (USC), International Museum Studies Institute
Los Angeles, CA

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

January 20, 2011
4:00-6:00 pm
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Center for Jewish Studies and History Department
Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
Faculty Center
Los Angeles, CA

“Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir et les Etats-Unis”

January 20, 2011
12:00-1:00pm
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), French Department
Los Angeles, CA

Forms of Collecting/Forme della Committenza

May 20-22, 2011
4th Festival of Contemporary Art
Faenza, Italy

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

January 12, 2011
7:30 pm
American Library in Paris
10, rue du Général Camou
Paris, France

Presentazione di “Leo & Cie”

December 21, 2010
5.30-7:00pm
Sala Bazlen
Trieste, Italy

“Sartre et Castelli, deux grands passeurs du 20° siècle, un philosophe et un galériste qui ont transformé leur siècle”

December 15, 2010
2:30-4:30pm
EPAU, School of Architecture
Algiers, Algeria

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Society of the Four Arts
Palm Beach, FL
December 1, 2010

“Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867 – New York 1948″

Alliance Française
Miami, FL
November 22, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Miami Book Fair
Miami, FL
November 21, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Wellesley College
Boston, MA
November 18, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

January 18, 2011
6:00-8:00pm
Hosted by The ArtTable
Guggenheim Museum, Sackler Auditorium
New York, NY

“Leo Castelli: Reinventing the Function of the Art Gallerist”

Tufts University
Boston, MA
November 17, 2010

“Sartre Reconsidered in Light of the Obama Era”

French Cultural Center
Boston, MA
November 16, 2010

“The Triumph of Pop” A Panel with Annie Cohen-Solal, Romy Golan, Thomas Crow, Michael Lobel

CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY
November 3, 2010

“Leo Castelli: Reinventing the Function of the Art Gallerist”

Albright Knox Gallery
Buffalo, NY
October 13, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

New York State Writers Institute, SUNY
Albany, NY
October 12, 2010

“Leo Castelli and The Jewish Museum”

The Jewish Museum
New York, NY
October 7, 2010

“My Bed for a Museum! The Complex Relationship Between Leo Castelli and Alfred H. Barr”

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
New York, NY
October 3, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Ohio State University,
The Wexner Center
Columbus, OH
October 3, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

The National Arts Club
New York, NY
September 29, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Nathalie Obadia Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
September 23, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Pompidou Center
Paris, France
September 22, 2010

Conference on Sartre

Café de Flore
Paris, France
September 21, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Chilmark Free Public Library
Martha Vineyard, MA
September 15, 2010

“Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli”

Gerald Peter’s Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
August 25, 2010

“Ranking Artists”

International Workshop, organized by the INHA at the Hartung Foundation in Antibes, by Philippe Bordes et Thomas Schlesser, July 12-15, 2010

“Who’s Afraid of Cultural Policy?”

Panel Discussion Moderator, with Heather Hitchens (Executive Director, NYSCA), Ted Berger (former Executive Director, NYFA), and George Watchel (President, ARA), New York University, April 29, 2010

“Leo Castelli’s Trajectory between Paris and New York, as a Symptom of the New Ecology of the Art World”

Lecture, Yale University, March 4, 2010

“Triangulating Identity: New York, Paris and Algiers in Writing on Jean-Paul Sartre”

Lecture, Yale University, March 4, 2010

“Sartre Revisited in Light of the Obama Era”

Keynote Address, North American Sartre Society Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, November 12, 2009

“Simone de Beauvoir and the United States”

Lecture, Department of French and Italian, Program in the Study of Women and Gender, Princeton University, November 6, 2008

“Jean-Paul Sartre, the U.S. Presidential Debate and Cornell University”

Lecture, The Cornell French Society, Cornell University, October 24, 2008

“Simone de Beauvoir and ‘The Wonders of America, 1947-1951′″

Lecture, All Said and Done, Simone de Beauvoir 1908-2008, International Conference, Center for French Civilization and Culture, New York University, September 18-20, 2008

“Recovering the Satellites: The Global Museum”

Lecture by Alain Seban, organized by Annie Cohen-Solal, New York University, September 18, 2009

“My Bed for a Museum! The Complex Relationship Between Leo Castelli and Alfred H. Barr”

Lecture, The Politics of Display, America’s Past in Three Dimensions, a symposium in honor of Neil Harris, University of Chicago, May 3, 2008

“Collectors, Patrons, Dealers, Dealers, Collectors, Patrons: From Paul Durand-Ruel to the Castelli-Sonnabend Era”

Lecture, Center for Collecting in America, Frick Collection, New York, March 1, 2008

“From Abstract Expressionists to ‘Magicians of the Earth’: A New State of the Art World in 2006″

Conception and Organization, Third Pollock-Krasner Conference, Stony Brook Manhattan, May 2-3, 2006

“From Alfred Barr to Leo Castelli: A New Approach to the US Art World”

Lecture, Department of Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University, October 24, 2005

“Formation des jeunes peintres américains selon le modèle français au XIXe siècle: Ingres ou Delacroix, le dessin ou la couleur?”

Conference, Couleur(s) de l’Amérique, Congrès annuel de l’Association Française d’Etudes Américaines, Université de Pau, May 21-23, 2004

“Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Between European Avant-Gardes and American Modernism (1927-1939)”

Conference, America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations, European Association for American Studies, Université Charles, Prague, April 2-5, 2004

“L’art, reflet de nouvelles tensions”

Conference, Les nouvelles tensions aux Etats-Unis au début du XXIè siècle, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, January 30, 2004

“Interculturalité et Interdisciplinarité: les modernistes atlantiques, Steichen, Stieglitz, Stein and Picasso (1900-1913)”

Conference, DEA Litératures, Civilisations, Langages, directed by Jacques Pothier, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, January 17, 2004

“Scène artistique et acteurs dynamiques aux Pays-Bas, 1850-1940″

Lecture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, September 22, 2003

“Internationalisation des échanges ou impérialisme culturel?”

Conference, L’indépendance de l’art américain, Musée du Louvre with the Terra Foundation for the Arts and le Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Paris, March 8, 2003

“The Rise of Jackson Pollock and the Emergence of the American Art Scene”

Lecture, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, August 11, 2002

“Globalization, Terror and Democracy: How 9/11 Changed the Debate in America and Abroad”

Conference, The Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University, American Academy in Berlin, June 2-4, 2002

“Shifting Shores: Paris, New York, and Globalization of the Visual Arts”

Keynote Address, Congrès des Sciences Sociales et Humaines du Canada, University of Toronto, May 28, 2002

“Intercultural Space: France, Modernism, and the U.S., 1870-1930″

The Department of Romance Languages & The Louis Marin Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 13, 2002

“La recomposition du paysage culturel entre la France et les Etats-Unis”

L’Année 1945, Université de Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, January 24-26, 2002

“Institutions et société civile: la spécificité du monde américain des arts plastiques”

Made in U.S.A., 1908-1947, l’art américain du nationalisme à l’internationalisme, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Rennes, January 24, 2002

“Les femmes dans la construction d’un art américain”

Conference, Made in U.S.A., 1908-1947, l’art américain du nationalisme à l’internationalisme, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, November 28, 2001

“The ‘Weaving’ of a Transatlantic Art World: From Paris 1867 to New York 1948″

Seminar on the Atlantic Community, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, November 8, 2001

“The French vs. the British in the Visual Arts”

Department of Visual Arts, Harvard University, November 7, 2001

“Confronting the French Model: A Pathetic Conflict”

Conference for the Thomas Eakins Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, November 2, 2001

“Painting American: An Emancipation from the French Model”

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., October 30, 2001

“Did New York Really ‘Steal’ the Idea of Modern Art?”

Debate with Serge Guilbaut, France and America: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century, An interdisciplinary conference, organized by Michael Kelly, the University of Southampton, School of Modern Languages at Southampton, July 6-7, 2001

“Culture and Civil Society: the French Case”

Lecture at Conference, The Theory and Practice of Civic Globalism: The Democracy Collaborative’s First International Roundtable, The Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University, Washington D.C., April, 19-21 2001

“Training and Emancipation: American Painters from the French to the American Artist Colonies”

Lecture, Harwood Foundation, New Mexico, July 13, 2000

“The Cultural Dimension”

Lecture at Conference, Europe: the Future, organized by RAI in association with UNESCO, Venice, November 7-10, 1996

“The Philosophy of Biography and the Biography of Philosophers”

Lecture, English Department, New York University, October 10-11, 1996

“Coal Miners and Dinosaurs, American Media in France: Are They Such a Big Threat?”

Lecture, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, October 2, 1996

“Global American Culture? Incursion of American Models in France: Adaptation, Resistance, Rejection”

Colloquium, New Models for New Medias, for News Industry Decision-makers, New York, October 2, 1996

“French Intellectuals and African-American Artists: Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright”

Lecture at the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, May 22, 1996

“How American is the Global Village?”

Conference, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, May 4, 1996

“La Scène algérienne: actualité d’un dilemne historique de la France contemporaine”

Lecture, Vassar College, March 22, 1996

“The European Avant-Garde and the American Art Scene: 1913-1948″

Lecture, Vassar College, March 21, 1996

“The French Ghosts”

Lecture at Conference, Rethinking the Liberation of Europe, Italian Department, Columbia University, New York, April 24, 1995

“Can History Repeat Itself?”

Lecture at Conference, Unified Germany: Stabilizing Influence or Threat?, Adelphi University, April 1-2, 1995

“Ruler of the New Ruling Class”

Conference, “Advertising as Culture: Look and Image at the Millenium,” New School for Social Research, New York, March 7, 1995

“Writing the Sartre Biography”

Conference, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, November 6, 1994

“French Feminist Writers”

Symposium, Hofstra University, April 21, 1994

“Varieties of Anti-Modernism”

Colloquium, Department of History, Princeton University, May 20-21, 1994

“La fonction de la biographie dans un enseignement universitaire”

Lecture, 20th Century French Studies, Dartmouth, March 17-19, 1994

“The New Internationalism, examples of the emerging cultural interdependance in New York City”

Panel discussion, New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission and New York City Commission for the United Nations, the Asia Society, April 15, 1993

“The French University in New York”

Colloquium “The French in New York during World War II,” Columbia University, New York, April 9/11, 1992

“The French Intellectuals and the United States, 1945-1992″

Lecture, New York Public Library, February 25, 1992

“Les Années d’après-guerre: reconstruire une Europe culturelle”

Colloquium, “Les intellectuels en Europe de 1945 à 1991. Les méthamorphoses de l’engagement, ” Maison des Ecrivains & Sorbonne University, Paris, December 10-13, 1991

“What is left from Sartre today?”

Conference, “The Cooper Union Critique Series,” The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, December 4, 1991

“Race, Culture and Difference: A Discussion of the French Case”

“Hopes and Impediments: a Conference on Race and Other Differences,” CUNY, City College, New York, November 6, 1991

“Memorial Miles Davis”

Speech on behalf of the French Minister of Culture, Saint Peter’s Church, New York, October 5, 1991

“From Sartre to Derrida 1945-1990: the French Philosopher in the United States”

Lecture at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Sartre Society of North America, Dayton University, Ohio, September 27, 1991

“Strategies are Structures for Multi-Culturalism”

16th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, October 11-13, 1990

“The French Cultural Model”

Conference and debate with John Fronhmayer at the Second U.S. Governors’ Cultural Advisors Conference, Washington D.C., September 17, 1990

“Sartre à Hollywood, ou la rupture d’une fascination”

Conference, “Hollywood in Europa, 1945-’60, Cinema e Storia,” SIAS, University in Bologna, Centro di Ricerche sulla Cultura Europea dell’Istituto Universitario Europeo Florence, et dell’Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato, Florence, March 3-5, 1989