United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo—author of An American Sunrise—will present recent and new work live from Oklahoma.
To register for this online event, see:
REDCAT
Tuesday, March 23.
5 pm on the West Coast, 8 pm East Coast.
From top: Joy Harjo, photograph by Matika Wilbur, courtesy of REDCAT; Harjo, An American Sunrise (2020) cover image courtesy and © W. W. Norton.
There seemed to be two parallel streams in his life. The first—discipline, family order, schooling—dutifully performed but disavowed. The other, an “underground or subterranean” Edward who longed not only to read but to be a book. Everything artistic belonged to this second version: his tastes in reading, his love of music, the creativity he unpersuasively palms off in the memoir as “fibbing.” His childhood friends agreed: “Said was never really part of us … He lived a life separate from us, coddled, spoilt and adored… — Timothy Brennan*
This week, Timothy Brennan and Kai Bird will discuss Brennan’s acclaimed new book Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. For information on registering for the online conversation, see:
TIMOTHY BRENNAN ON EDWARD SAID, with KAI BIRD
City University of New York
Wednesday, March 24.
3 pm on the West Coast, 6 pm East Coast.
*Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), text © Timothy Brennan, courtesy of the author and publisher.
Image below courtesy and © Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Above: Edward Said.
Thank you to the UAW for trusting me with your lives. These are very personal, painful, intimate details and stories of everything they are still going through right now. It is an honor to show my work to serve the United Auto Workers in this country. — LaToya Ruby Frazier*
On the occasion of the exhibition GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE—ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA, join Frazier and New Museum curator Margot Norton for an online conversation. See link below to register.
LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER IN CONVERSATION WITH MARGOT NORTON
New Museum
Friday, March 12.
4 pm on the West Coast; 7 pm East Coast.
*LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation with Solveig Øvstebø and Karsten Lund at The Renaissance Society, Chicago, September 14, 2019,
LaToya Ruby Frazier, from top: Momme, 2008, from the series, The Notions of Family, 2008, gelatin silver print; Home on Braddock Avenue, from the series, The Notions of Family, 2007, gelatin silver print; Frances Turnage, UAW Local 1112, Women’s Committee, (34 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, Paint Shop), standing in her living room, wearing her work uniform, Youngstown, OH, 2019, 2019, gelatin silver print; LaToya Ruby Frazier, Flint is Family in Three Acts (2021) cover image courtesy and © the artist, Steidl, and the Gordon Parks Foundation; LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze (2020) cover image courtesy and © the artist and The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Mindy Miller, Iron Workers Union Local 851, (11 years in at Auto Warehousing Company (AWC)), standing in her grandmother’s living room with her mother and grandmother, Lezlie and Marlene Miller, Niles, OH, 2019, 2019, gelatin silver print; Grandma Ruby holding her babies, from the series, The Notions of Family, 2002, gelatin silver print. Images © LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
Hanging around is very important. Do you know what artists sitting around talking and smoking and drinking is? It’s called the history of art. — Fran Lebowitz
The raconteur and star of Martin Scorsese’s documentary series PRETEND IT’S A CITY joins USC professor Josh Kun for a live online conversation.
See links below for info on the talk and the show.
FRAN LEBOWITZ IN CONVERSATION WITH JOSH KUN
USC Visions and Voices
Tuesday, March 2.
5 pm on the West Coast, 8 pm East Coast.
FRAN LEBOWITZ—PRETEND IT’S A CITY
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Netflix
Now streaming.
Martin Scorsese, Pretend It’s a City (2021), from top: Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz; Netflix poster; Lebowitz (2). Images courtesy and © Netflix.
This weekend, join Amy Sillman and Rindon Johnson in conversation at the Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, presented by After 8 Books.
Taking Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings of Amy Sillman and Johnson’s The Law of Large Numbers: Black Sonic Abyss, or I do not walk a line that is thin, straight, or secure as its starting points, this conversation will deal with both artists’ writing practices and the central question of form in rethinking art history and aesthetic categories.*
See link below for full schedule of events.
FAUX PAS—A CONVERSATION BETWEEN AMY SILLMAN and RINDON JOHNSON*
Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair
Saturday, February 27.
11 am on the West Coast, 2 pm East Coast.
From top: Amy Sillman, photograph by Annette Hornischer, courtesy of the photographer and Sillman; Amy Sillman, Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings (2020), cover image courtesy and © After 8 Books; Rindon Johnson, The Law of Large Numbers: Black Sonic Abyss, or I do not walk a line that is thin, straight, or secure (2021), cover image courtesy and © Inpatient Press; Rindon Johnson, Working Still #1 (Alright, alright), 2020, color C print, image © Rindon Johnson, courtesy of the artist.
