Convenors:
Convened by the Art Galleries and Museums Subcommittee of the AAH (Fiona Bradley [Hayward Gallery], Penelope Curtis [Henry Moore Institute], Sarah Hyde [Courtauld Institute Galleries]; Helen Smailes [National Gallery of Scotland].

c/o Dr Liz Prettejohn, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Arts and Education, Earl Richards Road North, Exeter EX2 6AS, Devon. Tel 01392.475022; Fax 01392 475012. eprettejohn@plymouth.ac.uk.

This strand explores issues around exhibitions as major centres of art-historical discourse. The scope includes exhibitions of contemporary as well as past art. Issues will include: the role of 'star' curators, critical practices in exhibition reviewing, collaborations between 'in-house' curators and academic art historians (collaborative papers between art historians and museum curators would be particularly welcome), and the distinction between collections-based institutions and exhibitions-oriented ones.

The strand will consider both theoretical and practical issues concerning the interpretation and organisation of art through exhibitions. The way in which this division is often mapped onto the distinction between art historians and curators is another issue which we hope will be considered.

• Steven Gartside (University of Liverpool) Consuming Culture(s): Modern American Art in Britain
• Richard Williams (Liverpool John Moores University) Exhibitions and Non-Events
• Sabine Marschall (University of Durban-Westville, SA) Re-defining the Canon: The Role of the Two Johannesburg Biennales (1995 and 1997) in the Formation of a New South African Art
• Margaret MacDonald (Glasgow University) Whistler Exhibitions, Past and Present
• Tim Marlow (Chair) and others Panel of Curators: Making Exhibitions - Making Art History
• Dorcas Taylor (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds) Interventions: Re-appraising the Making of Art History through Contemporary Artists' Responses to Museum Collections
• Nicholas Tromans (Sotheby's Institute) The First British Curators? The British Institution and the Definition of the Art Exhibition
• Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes University) The Art of Compromise: An Art Historian as Exhibition Curator
• Judith Green (Independent scholar) A Many-Sided Mirror: The International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-36
• Vicki Kirkman (University of Liverpool) Art in Revolution and British Identities of Constructivism