New York City-based curator David Platzker will present a lecture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design tomorrow evening.
One of the leading authorities on artists' books and multiples, Platzker is the Director of Specific Object, an innovative gallery, bookshop, and storehouse for a range of items from artists’ publications. He was previously the Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from 2013-2018, and the executive director of Printed Matter from 1998 to 2004. Prior to that has also held positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum.
His curatorial projects at Specific Object and Printed Matter included shows of John Baldessari, Hanne Darboven, Marcel Duchamp, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, and Claes Oldenburg. At MoMA he co-curated There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4’33” in collaboration with Jon Hendricks; Sites of Reason (2014) with Erica Papernik; and in 2015 the exhibition Gilbert & George: The Early Years.
His publications include Printed Stuff: Prints, Poster, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg A Catalogue Raisonne 1958-1996, Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process, Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965–2016, among others.
The talk takes place Thursday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m., at Art Bar +Projects, Fountain Campus, (1873 Granville St, Halifax, NS).
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