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[caption id="attachment_4500" align="aligncenter" width="375"] Étienne Maurice Falconet: Pygmalion et Galatée, 1763, marbre, Saint-Petersbourg, musée de l'Ermitage.[/caption]Type : ConférenceDate : 19 - 20 mai 2017Lieu : New York, The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St.Presented by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, this two-day symposium will showcase how approaches to collecting and displaying sculpture have varied and changed over the centuries, from the Kunstkammer of late Renaissance princes, to thesculpture galleries of the eighteenth century, to garden sculpture ensembles and, finally to the challenges of displaying sculpture in public museums.The symposium is made possible through the support of the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.PROGRAMMEFRIDAY, 19 May 20173:15Registration3:30Welcome and Opening Remarks Ian Wardropper, Director, The Frick Collection Inge Reist, Director, Center for the History of Collecting,Frick Art Reference Library3:45Keynote Address : What Do We Mean by a “Sculpture Collection”? Malcolm Baker, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside4:30Coffee breakwunderkammer and kunstkammer—mixing the media4:55The Collecting of Small Bronze Sculptures in Renaissance Italy Jeremy Warren, Honorary Curator of Sculpture, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Sculpture Research Curator, The National Trust5:25Porcelain As Sculpture: Medium, Materiality, and the Categories of Eighteenth-Century Collecting : Michael Yonan, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri5:55Messy History? Sculpture Collecting and the Kunstkammer Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University6:25Questions from the AudienceSATURDAY, 20 May 201710:00Registration10:15Welcome : Inge Reist, Director, Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference LibraryGarden sculptures as collections10:25Versailles, Marly, Dresden: Magnificence and Its Limits Betsy J. Rosasco, Research Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Princeton University Art Museum10:55Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Garden Sculpture and Sculpture. Gardens in Eighteenth-Century England Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word &#38; Image, Victoria and Albert Museum11:25Coffee breakSculpture galleries11:50Staging Statues: The Challenge of the Group Jeffrey Collins, Professor, Bard Graduate Center12:20The “Gallerie du S.r Girardon Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy” Anne-Lise Desmas, Curator and Department Head of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The J. Paul Getty Museum12:50Lunch on your own2:15Myth, Memory and Marble: The Country House Sculpture Galler in the Post-Napoleonic PeriodAlison Yarrington, Professor of Art History and Dean of the School of Arts, English, Drama and Publishing, Loughborough UniversityThe changing place of sculpture in the public museum2:45The Problem of Sculpture in the Public Museum Andrew McClellan, Professor of Art History, Tufts University3:15The Legacy of William Valentiner in Shaping the Display of European Sculpture in American Museums, 1900-present: Case Studies Alan P. Darr, Senior Curator of the European Art Department and Walter B. Ford II Family Curator of European Sculpture &#38; Decorative Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts3:45Break4:05James Fenton and Ian Wardropper in Conversation: Collecting Sculpture for Private and Public Collections during the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First CenturiesTickets for both days are $50 ($35 for members); single-day tickets are$30 ($25 for members).