Category Archives: CONVERSATION

ON EDWARD SAID

There seemed to be two parallel streams in his life. The first—discipline, family order, schooling—dutifully performed but disavowed. The other, an “underground or subterranean” Edward who longed not only to read but to be a book. Everything artistic belonged to this second version: his tastes in reading, his love of music, the creativity he unpersuasively palms off in the memoir as “fibbing.” His childhood friends agreed: “Said was never really part of us … He lived a life separate from us, coddled, spoilt and adored… Timothy Brennan*

This week, Timothy Brennan and Kai Bird will discuss Brennan’s acclaimed new book Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. For information on registering for the online conversation, see:

TIMOTHY BRENNAN ON EDWARD SAID, with KAI BIRD

City University of New York

Wednesday, March 24.

3 pm on the West Coast, 6 pm East Coast.

*Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), text © Timothy Brennan, courtesy of the author and publisher.

Image below courtesy and © Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Above: Edward Said.

RASHIDA BUMBRAY AND JEFFERSON PINDER IN CONVERSATION

This week, MICA presents The Body As Black Archive, featuring performance artist and choreographer Rashida Bumbray and interdisciplinary artist Jefferson Pinder in conversation, moderated by curator Niama Safia Sandy.

See link below to register for the webinar.

THE BODY AS BLACK ARCHIVE

RASHIDA BUMBRAY and JEFFERSON PINDER IN CONVERSATION

Maryland Institute College of Art

Thursday, March 18.

1 pm on the West Coast; 4 pm East Coast.

From top: Rashida Bumbray, photograph by Jamie Philbert, courtesy of the artist and the photographer; Jefferson Pinder, Prowl, 2020, Chicago, image © Jefferson Pindar, courtesy of the artist; Jefferson Pinder, Monolith (dreamcatcher) , Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 2015–2016, image © Jefferson Pindar, courtesy of the artist and the Hyde Park Art Center.

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER IN CONVERSATION

Thank you to the UAW for trusting me with your lives. These are very personal, painful, intimate details and stories of everything they are still going through right now. It is an honor to show my work to serve the United Auto Workers in this country. — LaToya Ruby Frazier*

On the occasion of the exhibition GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE—ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA, join Frazier and New Museum curator Margot Norton for an online conversation. See link below to register.

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER IN CONVERSATION WITH MARGOT NORTON

New Museum

Friday, March 12.

4 pm on the West Coast; 7 pm East Coast.

*LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation with Solveig Øvstebø and Karsten Lund at The Renaissance Society, Chicago, September 14, 2019,

LaToya Ruby Frazier, from top: Momme, 2008, from the series, The Notions of Family, 2008, gelatin silver print; Home on Braddock Avenue, from the series, The Notions of Family, 2007, gelatin silver print; Frances Turnage, UAW Local 1112, Women’s Committee, (34 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, Paint Shop), standing in her living room, wearing her work uniform, Youngstown, OH, 2019, 2019, gelatin silver print; LaToya Ruby Frazier, Flint is Family in Three Acts (2021) cover image courtesy and © the artist, Steidl, and the Gordon Parks Foundation; LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze (2020) cover image courtesy and © the artist and The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Mindy Miller, Iron Workers Union Local 851, (11 years in at Auto Warehousing Company (AWC)), standing in her grandmother’s living room with her mother and grandmother, Lezlie and Marlene Miller, Niles, OH, 2019, 2019, gelatin silver print; Grandma Ruby holding her babies, from the series, The Notions of Family, 2002, gelatin silver print. Images © LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

TORBJØRN RØDLAND AND CARROLL DUNHAM IN CONVERSATION

This weekend, on the occasion of his show More Than Tongue Can Tell at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zürich, Torbjørn Rødland will join Carroll Dunham in conversation.

See link below to register for the webinar.

TORBJØRN RØDLAND and CARROLL DUNHAM IN CONVERSATION

Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Saturday, March 6.

Noon on the West Coast, 3 pm East Coast, 8 pm London, 9 pm Paris and Zürich.

Torbjørn Rødland, More Than Tongue Can Tell, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, January 15, 2021–March 13, 2021, from top: An Unfinished Hand, 2017–2020; Candlestick Pattern no. 2, 2020; Hedgehog Foam, 2019; Hood Ornament, 2019; Turnstile Gate no. 1, 2020. Each artwork is a chromogenic print on Kodak Endura paper. Images © Torbjørn Rødland, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich / New York.

GARRETT BRADLEY — TIME

In the context of America, it’s very difficult to prove racism. It’s very difficult to prove what that looks like and how it’s articulated on a systematic level. — Garrett Bradley

Join Bradley for a streamed screening of her new film TIME, followed by an online Q & A with the director. See link below for details.

GARRETT BRADLEY—TIME

Screening and Q & A.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

From 7 pm PST Friday to 7 pm PST Saturday, March 5 and 6.

From top: Garrett Bradley, Time (2020), images courtesy and © the filmmaker and Amazon; Bradley, photograph courtesy of the filmmaker.