Claire Bishop is a critic and professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012), and Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? (Walther König, 2013). She is a Contributing Editor of Artforum, and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages. She is currently working on two books: a short publication about Merce Cunningham’s Events, and a collection of essays about contemporary art and attention. Her most recent publication is a book of conversations with Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020).
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Programming
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Conversation
Thu, Dec 2, 2021,
05:30 PM –
07:00 PM
"Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s" by Romy Golan
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Panel Discussion
Thu, Oct 15, 2020,
07:30 PM –
09:00 PM
Blurring the Lines Between Art and Activism: A conversation with Tania Bruguera and Claire Bishop
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Conference
Fri, Oct 13, 2017,
09:30 AM –
07:00 PM
Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe
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Conference
Tue, Mar 7, 2017 –
Wed, Mar 8, 2017,
10:30 AM – 08:30 PM
10:30 AM – 08:30 PM
Art, Institutions, and Internationalism: 1933–1966
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Event
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 –
Sun, Mar 13, 2011,
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM