Rosalyn Deutsche
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Rosalyn Deutsche
A Grain of Prophet: ‘Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well’
Thursday, June 26, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
“Let there be a grain of prophet in every man!” So writes the liberation theologist Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a powerful influence on artist-activist Gregg Bordowitz, the subject of Rosalyn Deutsche’s talk. Bordowitz’s “survey” exhibition I Wanna Be Well, which dealt with today’s global AIDS crisis and racist violence, responded to Heschel’s call, leaping into action against social inequality. Rosalyn Deutsche is an art historian and critic who teaches modern and contemporary art at Barnard College/Columbia University in New York City. She is the author of Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (MIT Press, 1996), Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War (Columbia University Press, 2010), and Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
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