On Richard Prince: Nov 6

"Same Man Looking in Different Directions:
On the Art and Attitude of Richard Prince"

Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Sackler Center.
$10 ($7 for members, students, and seniors).

Richard Meyer, author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, examines Richard Prince's far-flung source materials—from biker porn and Borscht Belt jokes to Hollywood publicity photographs and pulp-fiction covers. Meyer links these materials to Prince's extensive collection of books and printed memorabilia, to the artist's writings, and to an early window display in a Greenwich Village bookstore. The talk also grapples with the surprisingly strong feelings that Prince’s art has aroused in critics, curators, even the artist himself. Moments of aggression and interpretive conflict are (delicately) touched upon.

This event is part of the programming organized in coordination with the exhibition Richard Prince: Spiritual America.

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