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| | | CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/17/2024Friday, May 17 at 6 PM, 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery present Robert Storr, author of three new books in the Heni Focal Points series, in conversation with Artforum Executive Editor Lloyd Wise.
Edited with text by Francesca Pietropaolo, Storr's Focal Points books represent a diverse range of independent subjects: Volume 1, Bruce Nauman, Volume 2, Ad Reinhardt, and a topical book on Storr’s experience working as a curator while living in Brooklyn, New York: Volume 3, Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Brilliantly scholarly, accessible and engaging, Focal Points offers fresh interpretations of the varied territory of modern and contemporary art, following the critical success of Storr’s Writings on Art 1980–2005, Writings on Art 2006–2021 and Interviews on Art.
Robert Storr is a curator, critic and painter. He was curator and then senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1990 to 2002, where he organized thematic exhibitions such as Dislocations and Modern Art Despite Modernism as well as monographic shows on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith and Robert Ryman. Mr. Storr has also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School, and Harvard University, and has been a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad. He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and written frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), Frieze (London), and Corriere della Sera (Milan). He has also written numerous catalogs, articles, and books, including Philip Guston (Abbeville, 1986), Chuck Close (with Lisa Lyons, Rizzoli, 1987), and Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois (2016), and Philip Guston. A Life Spent Painting (2020).
Lloyd Wise is an editor and writer based in Manhattan currently serving as Executive Editor at Artforum. He has written on artists including Jacquline Humphries, Jonathan Lasker, and Nöle Giulini.
Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, this live event will take place in person at 192 Books, 192 10th Avenue, New York City, between 21st and 22nd Street. The event is free, with no reserved seating. Seating is extremely limited and will be first come, first served. Books will be available for purchase at the store. The event will also be available virtually and will be streamed directly on PCG Studio at 6 PM Friday. There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be archived.
Robert Storr and Lloyd Wise on 'Focal Points'
Friday, May 17 at 6 PM
192 Books
192 10th Avenue at 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
Telephone 212.255.4022
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