In his classic 1972 Artforum essay, critic Lawrence Alloway described the art world as a network. Taking cues from Alloway’s observation about the nature of art production in the '60s and '70s, John A. Tyson proposes that the era’s portfolios of printed multiples can be understood as networked coproductions. In this lecture, Tyson historically contextualizes a selection of collective projects from the National Gallery of Art’s holdings: Walasse Ting’s “1-Cent Life” (1964), the Wadsworth Athenaeum’s “X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters)” (1964), curated by Samuel Wagstaff Jr.; gallerist Leo Castelli’s multimedia “Ten from Leo Castelli” (1968), William Copley’s […]

Since 1992, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Barry Blitt has done illustrations and drawn over 80 covers for the New Yorker, including "Deluged," which was voted Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006, and "The Politics of Fear," a finalist for the same award in 2009. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone, and the Atlantic. From 2003 to 2011, he illustrated Frank Rich's weekly column in the New York Times. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Arts and Homewood Arts Programs at Johns Hopkins University.