ARTBOOK BLOG

RECENT POSTS

DATE 4/25/2024

The Strand presents Joshua Charow launching 'Loft Law'

DATE 3/31/2024

Behold the photographic work of Jay DeFeo, born OTD in 1929

DATE 3/30/2024

Seminary Co-op presents the Chicago launch of Danny Lyon's 'This Is My Life I'm Talking About'

DATE 3/15/2024

A gorgeous and compelling new exploration of bodega culture from rising star, Tschabalala Self

DATE 3/15/2024

Vintage girl power in ‘Las Mexicanas’

DATE 3/14/2024

Celebrate Pi Day with 'Einstein: The Man and His Mind'

DATE 3/12/2024

Kindred Stores presents Anita N. Bateman on 'Where is Africa'

DATE 3/12/2024

Hot book alert! ‘God Made My Face’ is NEW from Dancing Foxes Press and Brooklyn Museum

DATE 3/11/2024

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the launch of 'Richard Nonas'

DATE 3/7/2024

Letterform Archive Press presents 'The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930' with Gennifer Weisenfeld

DATE 3/7/2024

Visions of the Black figure in ‘The Time is Always Now’

DATE 3/7/2024

Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman and Noelle Flores Théard on 'Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s'

DATE 3/6/2024

Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood Books


EVENTS

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/14/2014

Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center

On Sunday, October 5 at 2PM, Joan Rothfuss (former Walker Art Center curator and current co-curator of the upcoming Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections) will read from and sign her new book, Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman at the Walker.

Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center

In the 1960s, Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991) became famous for her madcap (and often unclothed) performance antics. More significant is her transformative influence on contemporary performance practice and her dedication to the idea that avant-garde art should reach the widest possible audience. In Topless Cellist, the first book on Moorman’s life and work (2014, MIT Press), Rothfuss rediscovers the legacy of an extraordinary American artist.

Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center
ABOVE: Charlotte Moorman performing 'TV Bra for Living Sculpture' by Nam June Paik in 1976.

Moorman, who collaborated with artist Nam June Paik on such works as "Concerto for TV Cello and Videotapes," is pictured in two works in the current Walker exhibition Art Expanded, 1958-1978.
Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center
Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center
Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center
Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center
Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center
Joan Rothfuss to Sign 'Topless Cellist' at Walker Art Center