Sylvia Lavin discusses “Architecture not in Evidence”. Lavin is a head of the Ph.D. in Architecture program and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Midcentury Inversions”.

Joshua Shannon discusses “The Matter of the Mid-Century Desert”. Shannon is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History & Theory at the University of Maryland and The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desert Avant-Garde”.

Yael Lipschutz discusses “A NeoHooDoo Western: Noah Purifoy, Spirit Flash, Art, and the Desert”. Lipschutz is an independent curator. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Outsider Spaces”.