Tom McDonough (lecture)
@ Open Practice Committee
Logan Center for the Arts, 9th floor Performance Penthouse, 915 East 60th Street
Opening Monday, November 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tom McDonough teaches the history and theory of contemporary art, as well as modern architecture and urbanism. His most recent book is the anthology The Situationists and the City (Verso, 2009); other publications include “The Beautiful Language of My Century”: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 (MIT Press, “OCTOBER Books,” 2007), and the anthologies Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (MIT Press, “OCTOBER Books,” 2002) and The Invisible Flâneuse? (Manchester University Press, 2006). He has published regularly in journals such as Afterall, Art in America, Artforum, Documents, Grey Room, OCTOBER, and Texte zur Kunst. In 2008-2009 he was Visiting Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Summer 2009 he ran a research seminar on “Berkeley, Paris, Berlin: 1967-1972” at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris. McDonough has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, and a recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. He is currently writing Sowing the Wind, a history of the Situationist International, which is forthcoming from Reaktion Books. McDonough is an editor at Grey Room.
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