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SIMONE LEIGH AND SAIDIYA HARTMAN IN CONVERSATION

Join Simone Leigh and Saidiya Hartman—author of the acclaimed new study Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval—for a Frieze Talk this week in New York.

“[Hartman’s] work has always examined the great erasures and silences—the lost and suppressed stories of the Middle Passage, of slavery and its long reverberations. Her rigor and restraint give her writing its distinctive electricity and tension. Hartman is a sleuth of the archive.” — Parul Sehgal

SIMONE LEIGH and SAIDIYA HARTMAN in conversation

FRIEZE NEW YORK

Friday, May 3, at noon.

Randall’s Island Park, New York City.

SIMONE LEIGH—LOOPHOLE OF RETREAT

Through October 27.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), New York City.

From top: Saidiya Hartman (left) and Simone Leigh, courtesy of the author and artist; Leigh with Brick House—her High Line Plinth work—in process, photograph by Timothy Schenck, courtesy of the artist and the photographer; Hartman book cover courtesy W.W. Norton & Company.

KATE MILLETT

Kate Millett—the author of Sexual Politics and “a defining architect of second-wave feminism”—died in Paris this week while on vacation with her spouse Sophie Keir.*

“Kate was brilliant, deep, and uncompromising. She wrote about the politics of male dominance, of owning women’s bodies as the means of reproduction, and made readers see this as basic to hierarchies of race and class. She was not just talking about equal pay, but about woman-hatred in the highest places and among the most admired intellectuals.” — Gloria Steinem*

See Maggie Doherty, “What Kate Did,” The New Republic, March 23, 2016:

newrepublic.com/article/131897/kate-millett-sexual-politics

*Parul Sehgal and Neil Genzlinger, “Kate Millett, Whose Sexual Politics Became a Bible of Feminism, Dies at 82,” New York Times, September 8, 2017.

Image credits: Doubleday and The Lesbian Tide.

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