May 17th: Robert Storr- Focal Points
Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Storr in Conversation with Lloyd Wise to discuss his new series Focal Points (HENI Publishing, 2024)
This event will take place live at 192 Books at 192 10th Avenue, between 21st and 22nd avenue, on Friday, May 17th at 6:00 PM ET. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. The discussion will be streamed directly on this page. A recording will be archived.
Robert Storr—Focal Points: Bruce Nauman, Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt, and Focal Points: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Race and Representation in the American Citadel of Modern Art (Edited with Texts by Francesca Pietropaolo).
The new complete series Focal Points by leading American art critic and curator Robert Storr and edited by art historian and curator Francesca Pietropaolo.
The series represents Storr’s diverse range of independent subjects: Volume 1, Bruce Nauman, Volume 2, Ad Reinhardt, and a topical book on Storr’s experience working as a curator while living in Brooklyn, New York: Volume 3, Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Brilliantly scholarly, accessible and engaging, Focal Points offers fresh interpretations of the varied territory of modern and contemporary art, following the critical success of Storr’s Writings on Art and Interviews on Art.
Robert Storr is a curator, critic, and painter. He was curator and then senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1990 to 2002, where he organized thematic exhibitions such as Dislocations and Modern Art Despite Modernism as well as monographic shows on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith, and Robert Ryman. Mr. Storr has also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School, and Harvard University, and has been a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad. He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and written frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), Frieze (London), and Corriere della Sera (Milan). He has also written numerous catalogs, articles, and books, including Philip Guston (Abbeville, 1986), Chuck Close (with Lisa Lyons, Rizzoli, 1987), and Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois (2016), and Philip Guston. A Life Spent Painting (2020).
Photo By Nat Ward
Terrence Arjoon is a poet, editor, and critic whose work has appeared in Tagvverk, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Smooth Friend, among other publications. His chapbook Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves was published by 1080PRESS where he is an editor. His first book El Desdichado is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.