Patricia Falguières

Patricia Falguières is a professor at the École des hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, The School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris. Her work has primarily concentrated on philosophy and the art of the Renaissance and its classifications, encyclopedias, indexes and the birth of the museum in modern Europe. In parallel, she is active in the field of contemporary art, through articles and essays, monographic publications or writing on conceptual art, the relationships between art and theatre in the twentieth century. She contributed to the critical edition of Brian O’Doherty’s Inside the White Cube (2008). She runs several history and art theory research programmes. She initiated the series of Lectures Maison Rouge at La Maison Rouge, Paris, and she co-directs the seminars Something You Should Know at the EHESS with Élisabeth Lebovici and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. In 2011, Centre Pompidou organised a programme of conferences and encounters proposing perspectives on history and art criticism entitled According to Patricia Falguières. She lives and works in Paris.