Art and Its Worlds; Art and Globalization

Date: Friday, October 19, 1:00 pm

Speaker: Robert Hobbs

Robert Hobbs holds the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair in art history at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a visiting professor at Yale. Recognized as both an academic and a museum curator, his work joins social history with literary criticism, aesthetics, and feminist and postcolonial theory. He has published widely and has curated dozens of exhibitions, many of which have been shown at important institutions in the US and abroad. His specific research areas span the twentieth- and twentieth-first centuries, and his publications include monographs on Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Mark Lombardi, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker. In addition to working on mainstream modern and post-modern artists, his published research includes in-depth studies of regional, self-taught, and Native American artists as well as investigations of contemporary and traditional craft media. Among the many exhibitions Hobbs has curated is "Mark Lombardi: Global Networks," which traveled the US and Canada recently.