Lecture Paul Schimmel

Paul Schimmel's lecture explores the formative years of pop art, its emergence from abstract expressionism in the 1950s, and its relationship to conceptual art in the 1960s.

See From Pop to Now after the lecture. A free bus departs from the front of Mershon auditorium at 5:40 pm and returns to campus at 7 pm. Chief curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, since 1990, Schimmel has organized many notable exhibitions, including Helter Skelter: Los Angeles Art in the 1990s, Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955Ò62 (with Donna De Salvo), and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949Ò1979.

Paul Schimmel also initiated MOCA's Focus Series, a series of unique solo exhibitions that has presented the work of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Jennifer Pastor, Franz West, and Richard Wilson.

Schimmel has lectured at art institutions throughout the world, from Kanazawa Museum of Modern Art, Japan, to the Royal College of Art, London, and is a recent recipient of the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence.