Lectures
Bettina Funcke and Johanna Burton on Zoe Leonard
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMBettina Funcke’s book, Pop or Populus: Art between High and Low, was recently translated into English and published by Sternberg Press (2009). She has lectured on aesthetics, art theory, and art writing at Bard College, Columbia University, Yale University, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her writings on contemporary art and its production have been published widely, in both artist monographs and magazines including Afterall, Artforum, Bookforum, Parkett, Public, and Texte zur Kunst. Latest essays include texts on Richard Phillips, Wade Guyton, Gerard Byrne, Jacques Rancière, and as well as a conversation with Carol Bove and one with Johanna Burton on GuytonWalker. A co-founder of The Leopard Press and the Continuous Project group, Funcke has worked as an editor at Dia Art Foundation and recently as Senior Editor U.S., Parkett.
Johanna Burton, a New York-based art historian and critic, has written extensively on postwar and contemporary art for numerous publications, including Artforum, Parkett, and Texte zur Kunst; and she is the editor of Cindy Sherman (2006), a collection of critical essays on the artist for MIT Press's October Files series. Burton's other recent writings include texts on the women-only art magazine Eau de Cologne (published in Witness to Her Art, eds. Rhea Anastas and Michael Brenson, Center for Curatorial Studies, 2006) and Lee Lozano (on the occasion of the artist's inclusion in an exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, in Spring 2008); and she has written catalogue essays for recent career survey exhibitions of Dara Birnbaum, Mel Bochner, and Mary Heilmann. She was recently appointed (2008) Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
Johanna Burton, a New York-based art historian and critic, has written extensively on postwar and contemporary art for numerous publications, including Artforum, Parkett, and Texte zur Kunst; and she is the editor of Cindy Sherman (2006), a collection of critical essays on the artist for MIT Press's October Files series. Burton's other recent writings include texts on the women-only art magazine Eau de Cologne (published in Witness to Her Art, eds. Rhea Anastas and Michael Brenson, Center for Curatorial Studies, 2006) and Lee Lozano (on the occasion of the artist's inclusion in an exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, in Spring 2008); and she has written catalogue essays for recent career survey exhibitions of Dara Birnbaum, Mel Bochner, and Mary Heilmann. She was recently appointed (2008) Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
They will discuss New York artist Zoe Leonard.
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