Luc Tuymans: The Barn
Artist Luc Tuymans joins Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Lewis Freedman.
The New Social Environment #839
Recorded on Friday, June 23, 2023 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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In this talk:
🚩 Luc Tuymans -- Luc Tuymans lives and works in Antwerp. His first major museum presentations were held in 1990 at the Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium, and the Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent. One of the first artists to be represented by David Zwirner, Tuymans has had seventeen exhibitions with the gallery since joining its roster in 1994. In 2001, the artist represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale to great acclaim. Tuymans has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions worldwide, and his works are featured in museum collections worldwide. Tuymans has received numerous awards and honors, including the Medal of Honor, International Congress of Contemporary Painting (ICOCEP), Porto, Portugal (2019) among others.
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🚩 Jason Rosenfeld -- Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
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The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and on this day we were fortunate to have Lewis Freedman:
🚩 Lewis Freedman -- Lewis Freedman is the name of a poet and person. Books published under this name include Residual Synonyms for the Name of God and I Want Something Other than Time, both from Ugly Duckling Presse. A special handwritten edition of I Want Something Other than Time will be released this summer.
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