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THE 1980'S: AN INTERNET CONFERENCE
Participants
Maurice Berger - Moderator
Maurice Berger is a
Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for
Social Research in New York and Curator of the Center for Art and Visual
Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County. His articles have appeared in
many journals and newspapers, including Artforum, Art in
America, The New York Times, The Village Voice,
October, Wired, and The Los Angeles Times. He is the
author of the critically acclaimed White Lies: Race and the Myths of
Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)—which was named as a finalist
for the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award of Harvard University—and eight other
books, Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s (Harper
& Row, 1989), How Art Becomes History (HarperCollins, 1992),
Modern Art and Society (HarperCollins, 1994), Constructing
Masculinity (Routledge, 1995), The Crisis of Criticism (The New
Press, 1998), Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion (Georgia O’Keeffe
Research Center/CAVC, 2003), Masterworks of the Jewish Museum (Yale, 2004), and
Museums of Tomorrow: A Virtual Discussion (Georgia O’Keeffe Research
Center/CAVC, 2005).
Alexander Alberro
Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor
of Art History at the University of Florida, is the author of Conceptual Art
and the Politics of Publicity (MIT Press, 2003). His essays have appeared
in a wide array of journals and exhibition catalogues. He has also edited and
co-edited a number of volumes, including Museum Highlights: The Writings of
Andrea Fraser (MIT Press, 2005), Conceptual Art: A Critical
Anthology (MIT Press, 2000), and Recording Conceptual Art
(University of California Press, 2001).
Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander is the author of
four books of poems, most recently American Sublime, and the essay
collection The Black Interior. Alexander has taught at The
University of Chicago, Smith College, and New York University and has received
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation as
well as the George Kent Award, given by Gwendolyn Brooks. She is a professor at
Yale University.
George Baker
George Baker teaches modern and contemporary
art history at UCLA and is an editor of OCTOBER magazine. A long-standing
critic for Artforum magazine as well, his recent publications include
an edited anthology of essays on the work of James Coleman (MIT Press, 2003),
the book "Gerard Byrne: Books, Magazines, and Newspapers," (Lukas &
Sternberg Press, 2004), and catalog essays for the retrospectives of Andrea
Fraser, Louise Lawler, Robert Whitman, and filmmaker Anthony McCall. Last year,
he edited a special issue of OCTOBER magazine dedicated to the concept of
"relational aesthetics" for which he organized a long interview with the artist
Pierre Huyghe. Currently he is at work on a book on Dada and Francis Picabia
entitled "The Artwork Caught by the Tail," to be published next year by the MIT
Press.
Judith Barry
Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose
work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, sculpture,
architecture, photography, new media and exhibition design. She has exhibited
internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale(s) of
Art/Architecture, Sao Paolo Biennale, Nagoya Bienale, Cairo Biennale, Carnegie
International, Whitney Biennale, Sydney Biennale, and INsite, among others. In
2000 she won the “Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts” and in 2001 she
was awarded "Best Pavilion" and “Audience Award” at the Cairo Biennale.
Currently, she is working on a book about art and technology, several
installation projects and two web-based works. Public Fantasy, a
collection of Barry’s essays, was published by the ICA, London, edited by Iwona
Blazwick (1991). Recent publications include Projections: mise en
abyme, with an essay by Brian Wallis and interview between Judith Barry,
Mark Wigley and Brian Wallis, Presentation House, Vancouver 1997; the catalogue
for the Frederich Kiesler Prize, Vienna 2000, the catalogue for the8th Cairo Biennale 2001, essay by Gary Sangster, Contemporary Museum,
Baltimore and The Mirror and the Garden, Diputacion Granada, Spain with
essays by Jan Avgikos and Jean Fisher (2003). She has taught and lectured
extensively in the USA, Japan, and Europe. Recent full-time positions include
the Visual Arts Program at MIT in Boston (2002-2003) and the Merz Akademie in
Stuttgart, Germany (2003 – 2004). Currently, Judith Barry is Director of the
MFA in Visual Arts at AIB/Lesley University in Boston.
Max Becher (Joint Bio with Andrea Robbins)
Andrea
Robbins and Max Becher have worked collaboratively for twenty years. They are
artists who make photo based conceptual work on the subject of the
"transportation of place". Andrea and Max have taught at the Cooper Union and
other institutions, and currently teach at The University of Florida. The work
of Robbins and Becher is in the collections of The Guggenheim Museum, NYC, The
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, The Jewish Museum, NYC, The New School of Social
Research, NYC, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.,CA, The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA, St. Louis Museum of Art, Ohio, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Arizona, Maison Européen de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France
In October a
Mid Career retrospective will be held at the Photographische Sammlung, Cologne
and an exhibit of new work; Brooklyn Abroad" will be held in November at the
Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Galerie Senda Barcelona, and the Harn Museum of
Art Gainesville Florida. A book of their work called "The Transportation of
Place" will be published in January by Aperture Foundation.
Dan Cameron
Dan Cameron has been Senior Curator at the
New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York since 1995. He has organized
exhibitions of William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Cildo Meireles, Faith Ringgold,
Doris Salcedo, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz, and Martin Wong, among
others. He served as curator for the 8th Istanbul Biennial in 2003.
Ondine Chavoya
C. Ondine Chavoya is Assistant Professor
of Contemporary Art and Latina/o Studies at Williams College. His essays have
appeared in journals and exhibition catalogues, such as Afterimage,
CR: The New Centennial Review, Wide Angle, Performance
Research, The Interventionists, Only Skin Deep, andCustomized: Art Inspired by Hotrods, Lowriders and American Car
Culture. In 2004, he co-organized the video retrospective “Michel Auder:
Chronicles and Other Scenes,” for the Williams College Museum of Art and wrote
the accompanying essay. He is a 2005-6 Research Fellow in American Modernism at
the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center and a Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation 2005-6 Career Enhancement Fellow.
Thomas Crow
Thomas Crow is the Director of the Getty
Research Institute, Professor of Art History at the University of Southern
California, and a contributing editor of Artforum. The former Robert
Lehman Professor of Art History at Yale University, he has authored two
influential studies of eighteenth-century French painting: Painters and
Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1985) and Emulation: Making
Artists for Revolutionary France (1995). Subsequent publications, includingTheRise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of
Dissent and the essay collection Modern Art in the Common Culture
(both 1996), examine the later twentieth century, while The Intelligence of
Art (1999) analyses specific moments in the history of art. Crow’s most
recent texts focus on single artists, including Gordon Matta-Clark (2003),
Robert Smithson (2004), and Robert Rauschenberg (forthcoming).
Dorit Cypis
Dorit Cypis, artist and mediator, explores
the thresholds of subjectivity in relation to corporeal, social, political and
psychological spaces. Cypis, whose work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally since the late 1970’, has also developed ambitious public
projects, i.e. Kulture Klub Collaborative, artists and homeless youth exploring
survival and inspiration. Her current project “Sightlines” will be presented at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Spring 2006. Cypis also mediates civil
cases.
Karen Mary Davalos
Karen Mary Davalos, Associate
Professor of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University, is author of
Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora
(University of New Mexico Press, 2001) and a member of the National Advisory
Board for A Ver: Revisioning Art History, the only book series on
Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and other U.S.-based Latino artists.
Her essays have appeared in exhibition catalogues and journals. She is currently
writing a manuscript on Museum Culture in Chicana/o Los Angeles, 1963-2005. With
generous support from Loyola Marymount University, she co-editsChicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio
Social.
RoseLee Goldberg
RoseLee Goldberg's seminal book,
Performance Art from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979,
pioneered the study of performance art. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of
Art, she was director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator
at The Kitchen in New York. In 1990 she organized “Six Evenings of Performance”
as part of the acclaimed exhibition “High and Low: Modern Art and Popular
Culture” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A frequent contributor toArtforum and other magazines, her books include Live Art Since
1960 and Laurie Anderson. In 2001 Goldberg originated and produced
"Logic of the Birds," a full length multimedia production by Iranian born artist
Shirin Neshat in collaboration with singer Sussan Deyhim, which premiered at the
Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2002 and toured to the Walker Art Institute in
Minneapolis and to Artangel in London. RoseLee Goldberg has lectured extensively
and has taught at New York University since 1987. She is founder of PERFORMA, a
non-profit interdisciplinary organization committed to the research, development
and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world.
Mary Kelly
Mary Kelly is Professor of Art and Critical
Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include
the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Generali Foundation,
Vienna and the 2004 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is
the author of Post-Partum Document (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983,
reprinted in English and German, Generali Foundation, Vienna and University of
California Press, 1998) and Imaging Desire (MIT Press, 1996). Mary
Kelly, a monograph on her work, was published by Phaidon Press, London,
1997.
Christine Kim
Christine Y. Kim is Associate Curator at
The Studio Museum in Harlem where she has curated exhibitions such as "Black
Belt" (2003), "Meschac Gaba" (2004), and "Africaine" (2002). She organizes the
annual artists-in-residence program and exhibition, and has also co-curated
exhibitions, such as "Frequency" (2005), with Thelma Golden. A contributor to
various journals and publications, Kim has taught at Bard Center for Curatorial
Studies and lectures frequently.
George King
George G. King is director, Georgia O’Keeffe
Museum, coming to the Museum from the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New
York, where he was executive director for ten years. Before his appointment to
Katonah, King held several positions at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York City over a six-year period,
including program director.
He attended Bennington College in Vermont and
the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning his BFA there in art history and
painting. King has served as panelist on a number of arts councils, including
Santa Fe Arts Commission, New York State Council on the Arts, Westchester Arts
Council and New York State Council for the Humanities. He is a Trustee of the
Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), was chair of the AAMD’s Program
Committee, and is a member of its Professional Issues Committee. He is also a
member of the board of directors of the Mountain-Plains Museum Association, as
well as a member of the College Art Association and New Mexico Association of
Museums.
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum, Professor of English
at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Visiting Professor in the painting department
of the Yale School of Art, is the author of ten books, including, most
recently, Model Homes (poetry), Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
(novel), and Andy Warhol (biography). His next book of poems,
Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, will be published in March 2006. His
essays have recently appeared in The Best American Essays 2004 and the
2004 Whitney Biennial catalogue.
Simon Leung
Simon Leung is Associate Professor of Studio
Art and affiliate faculty in the Department of Asian American Studies and the
Center in Law, Society and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. As
an artist, he has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern
Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); the Generali Foundation
(Vienna); the Whitney Biennial (1993); the Venice Biennale (2003); and the Luleå
Summer Biennial (2005). He is co-editor, with Zoya Kocur, of the anthologyTheory in Contemporary Art since 1985 (Blackwell, 2005).
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord, a writer, curator and
artist, is Professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Her
most recent book is The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation
documents an involuntary performance piece, in cyberspace, occasioned by the
diagnosis of breast cancer. Her writing has been published in various
anthologies, as well as in Afterimage, Art & Text,
Exposure, and Radical Teacher. She is the recipient of the
Frank Jewett Mather Award in art criticism from the College Art Association.
Barbara Buhler Lynes
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator,
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; The Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O’Keeffe
Museum Research Center; curator of numerous exhibitions on Georgia O'Keeffe and
her American Modernist contemporaries, and author of numerous books and
exhibitions catalogues, such as Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of
Place, Princeton University Press, 2004; Maria Chabot/Georgia O'Keeffe:
Correspondence, 1941-1949, University of New Mexico Press, 2003;O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Thames & Hudson,
2001; and Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. London and New Haven:
Yale University Press; Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery of Art; and The
Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999.
Kathy O'Dell
Kathy O'Dell is Associate Dean of Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
and the author of Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and
the 1970s (University of Minnesota Press, 1998). An art historian and
critic, her writings have appeared widely in publications includingArtforum, Art in America, Performance Research, andTDR. O'Dell is also one of the founders of Link: A Critical Journal
on the Arts, for which she edited a 2000 issue on the subject of
hysteria.
Lorraine O'Grady
Lorraine O'Grady is a photo-installation
and performance artist, writer, and critic whose work deals with issues of
hybridity, diaspora, cultural politics, and black female subjectivity. She is a
former member of the faculties of Studio Art and African American Studies at the
University of California, Irvine and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Vera
List Center for Art and Politics at the New School. In 1983, she curated the
landmark group exhibit, "The Black and White Show," at the East Village's
Kenkeleba Gallery.
Olu Oguibe
Olu Oguibe is Associate Professor of painting
and African-American studies at the University of Connecticut, and a senior
fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York.
He is also an artist, international curator, theorist, and award-winning poet.
To date his work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the
world including the Whitney Museum; Whitechapel Gallery and the Barbican Center,
London; Migros Museum, Zurich; the Irish National Museum of Modern Art, and
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, among many others; as well as in the Havana,
Busan, and Johannesburg biennials, and satellite exhibitions at the Venice
Biennale. His permanent public art works may be found in Nigeria, Germany, Japan
and South Korea.
Additionally, he has worked as curator or co-curator
for a number of international exhibitions including the 2nd Biennale of
Ceramics in Contemporary Art in Ligure, Italy in 2003; Vidarte 2002:
International Video and Media Art Festival at the Palacio Postal, Mexico
City in 2002; Century City at the Tate Modern, London, in 2001;Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa for the 49th Venice
Biennale in 2001, and Five Continents and One City:3rd
International Salon of Painting at the Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City in
2000, among others. He has served as advisor for the Dakar, Johannesburg, and
Havana biennials and as critic-in-residence at the Art Omi International
artists' residency.
Oguibe's critical and theoretical writings have
appeared in several key volumes including The Dictionary of Art,
Art History and its Methods, Art in Theory 1900-2000, The Visual Culture
Reader, The Third Text Reader on Art and Culture, The Black British Culture and
Society Reader, and Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the
Present, as well as journalss such as Flash Art, Art Journal, Texte zur
Kunst, Zum Thema, Third Text and Criterios. His most recent books
include Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace(MIT Press, 2000) and The Culture Game (University of Minnesota
Press, 2004).
Oguibe previously taught at the University of London
School of Oriental and African Studies, Goldsmiths College, London, the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of South Florida where he
held the Stuart Golding Endowed Chair in African art.
Wendy Perron
Wendy Perron, editor in chief of Dance
Magazine, danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in the 1970s and has
choreographed over 40 works for her own company. She has taught at Bennington
College, Princeton University, SUNY Purchase, Mt. Holyoke, NYU, and Rutgers
University. She co-organized an exhibit on Judson Dance Theater, the seminal
interdisciplinary group of the 1960s that gave rise to postmodern dance. In the
mid-70s Ms. Perron wrote for the Soho Weekly News, and became the
editor of its “Concepts in Performance” page, an early forum for writing about
performance art. She has also contributed articles to The New York
Times, the Village Voice, Dance Research Journal, Dance
Magazine and to the book Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was
Possible by Sally Banes.
Andrea Robbins (Joint Bio with Max Becher )
Andrea
Robbins and Max Becher have worked collaboratively for twenty years. They are
artists who make photo based conceptual work on the subject of the
"transportation of place". Andrea and Max have taught at the Cooper Union,
Rutgers University, and currently at The University of Florida. The work of
Robbins and Becher is in the collections of The Guggenheim Museum, NYC, The
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, The Jewish Museum, NYC, The New School of Social
Research, NYC, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.,CA, The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA, St. Louis Museum of Art, Ohio, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Arizona, Maison Européen de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France
In October a
Mid Career retrospective will be held at the Photographische Sammlung, Cologne
and an exhibit of new work; “Brooklyn Abroad” will be held in November at the
Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Galerie Senda Barcelona, and the Harn Museum of
Art Gainesville Florida. A book of their work called The Transportation of
Place will be published in January by Aperture Foundation.
David A. Ross
David A. Ross is President of the Artist
Pension Trust, a financial service company working exclusively for visual
artists. Mr. Ross has been a leader in the arts community for more than 30
years, serving nearly 20 years as a director at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston.
A Trustee of the Studio Museum in Harlem and Chairman of the Anaphiel
Foundation, Mr. Ross is also on the Board of the American Anti-Slavery
Group, Rhizome, and the Committee Scientifico of the Fondazione CRTin Turin, Italy.
Irving Sandler
Irving Sandler is Professor Emeritus of
Art History at the State University of New York at Purchase and a former
Acting-Director of the Neuberger Museum of Art. He has written a four-volume
history of art since 1945, consisting of The Triumph of American Painting: A
History of Abstract Expressionism (1970), The New York School: Painters
and Sculptors of the 1950s (1978), American Art of the 1960s
(1988), and Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early
1990s (1996). He has also edited (with Amy Newman) Defining Modern Art:
Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (1988). In addition, he has
written monographs on Alex Katz, Al Held, Philip Pearlstein, and Mark di Suvero,
numerous catalogue introductions and articles in Art News,
Artforum, Art in America, Art International, Arts
Magazine, and The New York Times. He was the art critic of theNew York Post (1961-65) and is currently a contributing editor toArt in America. He was a trustee of the Mark Rothko Foundation and a
co-founder and board member of Artists Space, a former board member of the
College Art Association, and a former president and current board member of the
American Section of the International Art Critics Association.
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann is a
multidisciplinary artist who has transformed the very definition of art,
especially with regard to discourse on the body, sexuality and technology. Her
video, film, painting, photography performance art and installation works have
been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, NYC, as well as in Europe. In 2002, Imaging Her Erotics -
Essays, Interviews, Projects was published by MIT Press; previous published
books include More Than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Work and Selected
Writing (1979, 1997).
Lowery Stokes Sims
Lowery Stokes Sims is President and
past Executive Director of The Studio Museum in Harlem. Prior to her
appointment in January 2000, she was Curator of Modern Art at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, on staff since 1972. Sims received her Ph.D. in art history in
1995 from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of
New York. She has curated or co-curated over 30 exhibitions at the Metropolitan
Museum, the Studio Museum and in art institutions internationally, and written
extensively on modern and contemporary artists with a focus on the work of
African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American artists. She is currently
Chair of the Cultural Institutions Group, a coalition of 34 museums, historical
societies, botanical gardens and zoos in New York City.
Franklin Sirmans
Franklin Sirmans is an independent
curator and freelance writer based in New York City. A former Editor ofFlash Art and Art AsiaPacific magazines, Sirmans has written
for several publications including The New York Times andEssence. He was cocurator of Basquiat, One Planet Under A
Groove: Contemporary Art and Hip Hop and Make It Now: New Sculpture in
New York. He teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Princeton
University.
Carol Squiers
Carol Squiers is a writer, editor and
curator who lives in New York City. Received a B.A. in Art History from the
University of Illinois in Chicago and did graduate study in art history at
Hunter College at the City University of New York. As Curator at the
International Center of Photography, New York (2000-present), has organized the
exhibitions for the five-part series “Imaging the Future: The Intersection of
Science, Technology, and Photography,” including “Perfecting Mankind: Eugenics
and Photography” (2001) and “Foreign Body: Photography and the Prelude to
Genetic Modification” (2002). Curator of the forthcoming exhibition, The
Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing, and author of
its fully illustrated catalogue (University of California Press, 2005). Edited
the collection Overexposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography (The New
Press, 2000). Has written essays for a wide variety of publications, includingArtforum, The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity
Fair, Parkett, Art in America, and Aperture, and
for books and catalogs, including Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of
Photography and Video (Steidl and ICP, 2003); Peek: Photographs from
the Kinsey Institute (Arena Editions, 2000); and Barbara Kruger: A
Retrospective (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999).
Michele Wallace
Michele Wallace, Visiting Professor of
Africana Studies at Cornell University, on leave from position as Professor of
English, Women's Studies and Film Studies at the City College of New York and
the CUNY Graduate Center, author of Dark Designs and Visual Culture
(Duke UP 2005), Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (Verso 1990) andBlack Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman (Verso 1990 reissue; 1979
Dial Press).
Oliver Wasow
Oliver Wasow is an artist/photographer and
an adjunct professor of photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and Bard
College's MFA Program. His photographs are represented by the Janet Borden
Gallery in NYC and have been exhibited widely in the US and throughout the
world. His artwork is included in a number of prominent private and public
collections, including the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New
York. His work has been reviewed in most major art publications, includingArtnews, Artforum, and The New York Times. During
the 1980s he was the owner and director of the Cash/Newhouse Gallery on NYC’s
Lower East Side.
Jonathan Weinberg
Jonathan Weinberg is a painter and art
historian. He is currently a 2005-6 J. Clawson Mills Art History Fellow at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and a recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim fellowship. He
is the author of Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art (2005);Fantastic Tales: the Photography of Nan Goldin (2005); Ambition and
Love in Modern American Art (2001); and Speaking for Vice:
Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley and the
First-American Avant-Garde (1993). Weinberg’s paintings, which are in
several public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Montclair Art Museum, can be seen on his website: www.jonathanweinberg.com. He is
currently working on a book entitled Belated Bohemia: Art and Identity in
the East Village.
Linda Yablonsky
Linda Yablonsky is the author of a novel,
The Story of Junk, and an art critic based in New York, where she
teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is a frequent contributor
to The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Time Out New
York, Artforum.com and ARTNews, where she is also a contributing
editor. Additionally, she was founding program director for WPS1.org, the
Internet-based art radio station from P.S.1/MoMA creating and producing its
original talk and historical shows. Her essays have appeared in several
anthologies, including Curve: The Female Nude Now (Rizzoli, 2005),
O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (Pantheon, 1999), The Time
Out Book of New York Walks (Penguin, 2000) and a number of exhibition
catalogs