Jonathan Weinberg & Joe Lucchesi,take questions on their papers given at the scholarly symposium "Addressing (and Redressing) the Silence: New Scholarship in Sexuality and American Art," January 29, 2010. The symposium presented papers from 11 scholars in the fields of art, art history, performance art, and social history. It was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." Joe Lucchesiis associate professor and chair of the Department of Art History at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His current research focuses on issues of history and memory in photography and on images of the American soldier in World War II--era advertising campaigns. Jonathan Weinberg is a painter and author of several books, including Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art and Ambition and Love in Modern American Art. He is a visiting critic at the Yale University Art School and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is recipient of the 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2009 grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation.

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