Join writers and art historians Elisabeth Lebovici and Adrian Rifkin for a conversation concerning the exhibition Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark, its histories and wider contexts.
Elisabeth Lebovici is a French art historian and critic. Following positions as chief editor of Beaux Arts magazine and arts editor of Libération, Lebovici established Le Beau Vice, an influential art history blog, in 2006. She is the author of monographs including Femmes artists / artistes femmes. Paris, de 1880 à nos jours [Women who are artists / artists who are women. Paris, from 1880 to the present day] (Hazan, 2007) and, most recently, Ce que le sida m’a fait – Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle [What AIDS did to me: art and activism at the end of the 20th century] (JRP|Ringier, ‘Lectures Maison Rouge’, 2017). From 2006 to 2024, she co-curated the renowned seminar ‘Something You Should Know: artists and producers’ at the EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris.
Adrian Rifkin is a writer and art historian. He has written on subjects including cinema, image culture, popular and classical music, literature and pornography, while his books include Future Imperfect (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2021), Communards and Other Cultural Histories (Brill, 2017); Ingres Then, and Now (Routledge, 1999) and Street Noises: Studies in Parisian Pleasure, 1900–40 (Manchester University Press, 1993). He has taught at institutions including the University of Leeds, in Fine Art and Cultural Studies, and was formerly professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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