Feb 10th 2013

Anne Rorimer Lecture – Joy of the Real: The Reception of “New Art” in 1970s Chicago

@ The Renaissance Society

5811 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Sunday, February 10th, at 2PM

Anne Rorimer will survey a series of Minimalist and Conceptual exhibitions mounted in Chicago during a period when she was curator of contemporary art at The Art Institute and a pivotal influence on the trajectory of The Society. She is the author of New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality (Thames and Hudson, 2001) and most recently Michael Asher Kunsthalle Bern 1992 (Afterall, 2012). In 1995 she was the co-curator (with Ann Goldstein) of Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965–1975, organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has published widely in exhibition catalogues and journals. This event will take place in Swift Hall Room 106. (Swift Hall is directly east of the gallery.) FREE.

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