Recent Issues and Perspectives: Figuration consisted of two panels which examined issues related to recent figurative painting. The moderators and panelists offered varied and insightful commentaries, followed by numerous questions from the audience. These events, attended by over five hundred participants each evening, represented the Museum’s continuing effort to provide the community with an opportunity to participate in a forum designed to examine, in depth, various aspects related to issues in contemporary art. The panels featured:

May 17 : Linda Cathcart, Sandro Chia, Eric Fischl, .Jedd Caret, Donald Kuspit, Thomas Lawson , and Lowery Sims (moderator)

May 24: Mary Boone , Robert Colescott, Neil Jenney, Judith Linhares, Peter Schjeldahl, and Irving Sandler (moderator)¹