The Luxury of Incommensurability:
Painting Between Abstraction and Representation

Katy Siegel is a professor of art history at Hunter College, CUNY; editor in chief of Art Journal; and a contributing editor to Artforum. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary art; recent essays focused on the changing nature of studios and art school, and the work of Mark Bradford. She was the curator of the 2006 exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, and she is currently at work on a large historical-painting exhibition that will open at the Wexner Center in 2013. Her books include Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art (Reaktion: 2011) and Abstract Expressionism (Phaidon: 2011).

This lecture takes place in Freed Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art.

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