VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present an Artists/Scholars Talk: Douglas Crimp, Saturday, November 5, 2pm.  Join us for a walk-through of Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein with Douglas Crimp (pictured), the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester.

Crimp is the author of On the Museum’s Ruins (1993) and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002). He was the curator of the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space, New York, in 1977 and an editor of October magazine from 1977 to 1990.

With Lynne Cooke he organized the exhibition Mixed Use, Manhattan for the Reina Sofía in Madrid in the summer of 2010. Our Kind of Movie, his book on Andy Warhol’s films, will be published by MIT Press in March 2012. He is currently at work on a memoir of New York in the 1970s called Before Pictures.

Crimp’s interview with the artist Donald Moffett appears in the exhibition’s catalogue.