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Alex Bacon on Hanne Darboven

Saturday, June 24, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea

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Saturday, June 24, 2017, 2:30 pm

Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York City 

Free; no reservations required.

Alex Bacon is an art historian based in New York, who also regularly writes criticism and organizes exhibitions of both contemporary and historical art. With Hal Foster, Bacon edited a collection of essays on Richard Hamilton (MIT Press, 2010). He has written for numerous publications, including Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, and Rhizome, and has also authored texts for books on artists such as Francis Alÿs, Simon Hantaï, Josiah McElheny, Ad Reinhardt, Niele Toroni, and Stanley Whitney. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and has served as a guest critic in the graduate painting departments of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. He has curated numerous exhibitions, the most recent of which is a presentation at Lisson Gallery, New York, of the spray paintings and photographs of Roy Colmer. Bacon is currently finishing up his PhD in art history at Princeton University, with a dissertation on the first decade of Frank Stella’s career.

 

 

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Artists on Hanne Darboven

Artists on Hanne Darboven is the first installment in a series culled from Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lectures, focused on German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven. It features contributions from Gregg Bordowitz, Sam Lewitt, Josephine Meckseper, and Matt Mullican.

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