January 9th, from 4 pm to 8 pm
January 10th, from 10 am to 6.30 pm
Based on the exhibition Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation and on the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's Tenth Anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Terra Foundation For American Art have organized an academic symposium titled In Transit: 300 Years of Art in the USA.

The sessions will bring together a comprehensive panel of thinkers and specialists of great international renown, who will discuss about the United States and its influence over its 300 years of history, in art, culture, and politics in an international context. The following topics, among others, will be addressed:

• The paths of culture between the New and the Old World
• The transit of ideas between different artistic disciplines
• Fiction about the USA and its role in imagination
• A esthetics and the meaning of appropriation and art
• Business activity as a driving force of social and urban development

PROGRAM

January 9
SESSION I

4 pm
Welcome address and presentation of the symposium: Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Director General, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Conversation: In and out of Bilbao: Visions of the USA. Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Director General, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

5.30 pm
Acknowledgments: Elizabeth Glassman, Elizabeth Glassman, Chairperson, Terra Foundation for American Art.
Presentation of the exhibition: Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation. Susan Davidson, Senior Curator 20th Century, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

6 pm
Conference: Mirages of Identity: The Forging of an American Art and Its Ideological Contestations
Sheldon Nodelman, Lecturer in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego.

8 pm
Visit to the exhibition.

January 10
SESSION II

10 am
Presentation: Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Director General, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

10.15 am
Conference: Art in the USA Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

11.00 am
Presentation: Veerle Thielemans, Museum of American Art, Giverny.
Conference: Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939. Alexander Nemerov, Lecturer in the History of Art and American Studies, Yale University.

1 pm
Lunch

SESSION III

3 pm
Presentation: Elizabeth Kennedy, Curator of the Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art.
Round table: History in the Present Tense. David Lubin, Lecturer in Art, Chair of Charlotte C. Weber, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Senior Curator of 19th- and 20th-Century Art, Eugénie Prendergast, Williams College Museum of Art, Tom Sachs, artist.

5 pm
Presentation: Marta Arzak, Associate Director of Education and Interpretation, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Conference: American Art Viewed from Europe .
Francisco Calvo Serraller, Professor of History of Art, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

6 pm
Discussion.

ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION

• Attendance is free
• Preliminary registration required (until hall capacity is reached) at: tel. no.: 944359062, Monday to Tuesday, from 10 am to 6 pm or on Esta dirección de correo electrónico está protegida contra los robots de spam, necesita tener Javascript activado para poder verla . Total or partial attendance is permitted (state days and sessions chosen)
• Venue: Auditorium of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum

UNIVERSITY CREDITS
Students from the School of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU that attend the symposium will be given a certificate that will be valid for one academic credit of their choice of the UPV/EHU. To do so, they must submit their student's card at the beginning of the programme.