The Research and Academic Program has convened the Clark Conference since 1999. The Clark Conference offers an international forum to bring together scholars, academics, museum professionals, and artists to confront the philosophical and political questions provoked by the study of the visual arts in culture and to examine art history as a discipline. Past topics have included investigating Anthropologies of Art (2003), Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century (2006), reorienting Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (2011), the place of art and its histories in a time of ecological crisis in Ecologies, Agents, Terrains (2017), and the influence of conservation practices on the writing of art history in Conservation | Making | Art | History (2021, titled The Expanded Field of Conservation in the published volume), among others.
Typically held every other year, the Clark Conference is always open to the public and free to attend.
Clark Conference 2022
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Clark Conference 2021
Conservation | Making | Art | History
The Clark Studies in the Visual Arts is a series of publications that provides an international forum for scholars and museum professionals to confront the philosophical and political questions provoked by the study of the visual arts in culture. Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conferences, these volumes are co-published and distributed by Yale University Press, released the year following the conference.
Please visit our publications page to view all previous volumes of the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series.
Edited by Caroline Fowler and Alexander Nagel
With essays by Jennifer Bajorek, Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Sven Dupré, Noémie Etienne, Annika Finne, Caroline Fowler, Yukio Lippit, Murad Khan Mumtaz, Brian Michael Murphy, Alva Noë, Iwataro Oka, Kavita Singh, and Gabriela Siracusano
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