Lecture: Douglas Crimp
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th St, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Wednesday, November 2nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Please join us for a lecture by Douglas Crimp, where he will talk about his fantastic new book, “Before Pictures” at 6pm at the Logan Center (Midway Studios-Great Hall), 915 E 60th Street on the University of Chicago campus.
*The event is free and open to the public*
**Books will be avaible for purchase at the event**
Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester and the author of On the Museum’s Ruins, 1993; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2002; “Our Kind of Movieâ€: The Films of Andy Warhol, 2012, and Before Pictures, 2016. He was the curator of the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space, New York, in 1977 and, from 1977 to 1990, an editor of the journal October, for which he edited the special issue AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism in 1987. With Lynne Cooke, he organized the exhibition Mixed Use, Manhattan for the Reina SofÃa in Madrid in 2010, and he was on the curatorial team for the 2015 iteration of MoMA PS1’s quinquennial Greater New York.
Although Crimp wrote about performance art in the 1970s and edited the first monograph on Joan Jonas in 1983, he began writing about dance only in 2006, when he published the essay “Yvonne Rainer: Muciz Lover†in Grey Room. He subsequently wrote about Merce Cunningham’s Beacon Events and the fortieth anniversary of Trisha Brown’s dance company for Artforum, a second essay on Rainer, “Pedagogical Vaudeville†for the catalogue of Rainer’s exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, and “Relocating Rosas†for the catalogue of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s 2015 exhibition Work, Travail, Arbeid, at WIELS in Brussels.
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