Free Lecture - Monday, October 27th, 7 PM

David's Topic will be : In Praise of Impurity: Universal Values versus Geo-aesthetics in Contemporary Art.

After his studies at the University of Durham and the Courtauld Institute of Art, Elliott worked as an exhibitions officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, and then as director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976 to 1996. Elliott's program at Oxford included exhibitions of art from Latin America, Asia, South Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Elliott was then Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996 to 2001. In the 90's he curated an extensive exhibition 'Art and Power" exploring the relationship of Art with the totalitarian regimes in Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

From 2001 and 2006 Elliott was the director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, a museum devoted to contemporary - particularly Asian - art, architecture and design. He was recently appointed Director of Istanbul Modern starting January 2007 through October 16th, 2007. Elliott is currently director of the next Sydney Biennale in Australia in two years.

For more info - Sarah Munter - sarah.munter@asu.edu

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