About this talk

Panel discussion: Alvaro Barrington, Carrie Scott and Zoé Whitley join Rebecca Jones to discuss what is American art, its history, its future, and its evolution. The mid-20th century witnessed an unprecedented rise in the global influence of American art. Artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and, later, Faith Ringgold positioned the United States – and New York in particular – at the centre of a creative zeitgeist that left an indelible mark on contemporary art. The American character of this moment was unmistakable: in O'Keeffe's reverence for the New Mexico desert landscape, Pollock's radical inventiveness, Warhol's embrace of consumer culture and Ringgold's activist practice. But what influence does American art hold in the 21st century? Within a rapidly globalising cultural landscape, this panel brings together British and American perspectives to ask: how does today's cultural fluidity shape artistic expression and the perspectives of global audiences? And what, in our contemporary moment, makes a work of art distinctly American? Lunder Institute @ the Royal Academy of Arts was made possible through the support and partnership of the Lunder Institute for American Art, the Colby College Museum of Art. Lunder Institute @ invites institutions look critically at what is American art, its history, its future, and its evolution. Live closed captioning (CC) is available for the livestream of this event.

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