Talk: Paul Schimmel

Wed, February 13, 2013, 6 pm

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

LECTURE

Anne Rorimer
Joy of the Real: The Reception of “New Art” in 1970s Chicago 

Location: Swift Hall, Rm 106
Admission: FREE

Rorimer will survey a series of Minimalist and Conceptual exhibitions mounted in Chicago during a period when she was curator of contemporary art at The Art Institute and a pivotal influence on the trajectory of The Society. She is the author ofNew Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality (Thames and Hudson, 2001) and most recently Michael Asher Kunsthalle Bern 1992 (Afterall, 2012). In 1995 she was the co-curator (with Ann Goldstein) of Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965–1975, organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has published widely in exhibition catalogues and journals. This event will take place in Swift Hall Room 106. (Swift Hall is directly east of the gallery.)

R. H. Quaytman Passing Through the Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Portrait of Anne Rorimer), 2012 oil, tempera, gesso on wood 20 x 20 inches