Blind Handshake: Oct 27

Tuesday, October 27, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

In a panel moderated by Gloria Kury, David Humphrey, Geoff Kaplan and Molly Nesbit will discuss their collaboration on two 2009 books about contemporary art--Humphrey’s Blind Handshake and Nesbit’s Midnight, The Tempest Essays. Kury is an art historian who has taught at Yale and SVA, and is the founder and director of Periscope Publications; Humphrey is a writer and visual artist who is a recipient of the Rome Prize and a senior critic at the Yale School of Art; Kaplan is a graphic designer at the General Working Group and teaches at California College of the Arts; and Nesbit is a professor of art at Vassar College and the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Visiting Professor of 2007 at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Presented by the BFA Visual and Critical Studies and MFA Design Criticism Departments.

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