This year's theme is "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic," arguably one of the central puzzles of contemporary art practice. The choice between continuations of modernism (with its aesthetic values) and the various kinds of postmodernism that privilege politics, gender, identity, and other issues, remains a formative one for young artists, and continues to create deep divisions in the teaching and practice of art.

Faculty include Hal Foster, Jay Bernstein, and Eve Melzter.

Places are available for fifteen Fellows, and funds are available for travel and accommodation.

Full information about applying is available on the website, www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org.