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[New pub. alert] My essay on Alex Da Corte charts the queer and other experiences that inform his epic 2018 film. Alex was generous in our conversations and in trusting me with the responsibility of talking about this work in a different, more personal way.
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Chicago in October! Advanced notice: the Scott Burton exhibition is traveling to Wrightwood 659, and on October 9th I will be giving a revelatory lecture at The Art Institute of Chicago in relation to the show.
www.artic.edu/events/6222/...
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Lecture: Public AffectionsâThe Revelations of Scott Burton's Last Works | The Art Institute of Chicago
What does it mean for an artist to embed his lived queer experience into everyday objects? Join David J. Getsy, author of Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (2022), for a discussion of t...
https://www.artic.edu/events/6222/lecture-public-affections-the-revelations-of-scott-burtons-last-works
3 months ago
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Yay Oberlin! That place made me who I am, and I'm particularly honored to be alongside my fellow art history classmate (and Patricia Mathews mentee!) Libby Otto!
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Five Oberlin Alumni Earn 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships | Oberlin College and Conservatory
Five Oberlin alumni have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships.
https://www.oberlin.edu/news/five-oberlin-alumni-earn-2025-guggenheim-fellowships
7 months ago
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I canât tell you how much it means to me to be named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow! Thank you all
#guggfellows2025
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7 months ago
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Recording of Dec 2024 talk at the MCA Australia on 3 artists Iâve been thinking about for a long time re:
#queerabstraction
: Harmony Hammond, Lula Mae Blocton, & Felix Gonzalez-Torres. They've featured in my surveys before, but here I go into depth on key works. Plus some Australian examples!
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David Getsy: Unnatural RelationsâQueer Abstraction and the Intercourse of Forms in Contemporary Art
YouTube video by Power Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jCZeCEDyM
9 months ago
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Next month, on Feb 27, I will be with the fabulous TOM BURR at SculptureCenter in NYC, where we will have a public conversation about cruising as method, Scott Burton, Ălvaro Urbano's exhibition, and of course Tom's beautiful and sharp work.
www.sculpture-center.org/events/14266...
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David J. Getsy and Tom Burr on Scott Burton
RSVP This conversation highlights convergences and differences in queer understandings of artist Scott Burtonâs (1939â1989) writing, performance, and sculpture from the late 1960s through the late ...
https://www.sculpture-center.org/events/14266/david-j-getsy-and-tom-burr-on-scott-burton
10 months ago
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Good
@nytimes.com
review of
#scottburton
exh, but it misquotes my claim that the "sculptures perform as furniture." (inverted in the review) There is a difference. Maybe this just matters to me, but it's key to the works' complexity and their roots in queer experience
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/a...
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Scott Burtonâs Civic Engagement and Eroticism Merge at the Pulitzer
Paradigm-shifter for public art in the â80s, groundbreaking (and openly queer) performance artist in the â70s, Burton showed new ways of connecting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/design/scott-burton-pulitzer-foundation-sculptor-art.html
10 months ago
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December 13th in Sydney, I'll be giving a talk for the Power Institute and the MCA Australia. With Julie Mehretu exhibition on view, I'll be revisiting some of my work on queer abstraction (but with a focus on artists like Lula Mae Blocton and Harmony Hammond)
powerinstitute.org.au/events/unnat...
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Unnatural relations: Queer abstraction and the intercourse of forms in contemporary art | The Power Institute
https://powerinstitute.org.au/events/unnatural-relations-queer-abstraction-and-intercourse-forms-contemporary-art
12 months ago
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If you are in St. Louis next week (on 11/20), I'll be giving a talk at the Pulitzer Foundation in relation to the exhibition "Scott Burton: Shape Shift." My focus will be on how Burton's sculptures thematized key experiences of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
pulitzerarts.org/events/david...
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Dr. David J. Getsy Lecture on Scott Burton
The Pulitzer welcomes Dr. David J. Getsy for a public lecture on Scott Burtonâs Public Sculpture and the Knowledge of AIDS. Known for his sculptures and groundbreaking performance art, Scott Burtonâs ...
https://pulitzerarts.org/events/david-getsy/
12 months ago
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I've always wanted to be part of a band... "Decades later, an unlikely band of curators, scholars, and artists â many of whom never knew Burton personally â have become so invested in him that they are refusing to let his work fade into obscurity."
#scottburton
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/a...
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Scott Burton Left His Legacy to MoMA. Todayâs Heâs Almost Forgotten.
Scott Burton, one of Americaâs leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/arts/design/scott-burton-sculptor-legacy-moma.html
about 1 year ago
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On 6/13, I'll be in Montréal for a public dialogue with Théo Bignon about his fantastic exhibition at the Centre CLARK, featuring meticulously embroidered memory-images of queer connections, cruising sites, and the residue of the possibility of others.
centreclark.com/en/exhibitio...
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Double entendre â Centre Clark
Defiantly, public sex breaks norms and laws, offering to its participants an encounter with desire and connection. It is a queer activity, oneâŠ
https://centreclark.com/en/exhibition/double-entendre/
over 1 year ago
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NYC Friday 12/15, 7pm, at Artists Space NYC I'll be giving a talk in recognition of the Dedalus Foundation's Robert Motherwell Book Award for 'Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art' (Chicago, 2022). Free and open to public.
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almost 2 years ago
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On Mon, 12/4, I'll be doing a public interview of the always charming and ever insightful Steven Nelson at the Lindner Center for Art History at UVA. (regionals: it's worth the trip!) We'll be talking about what motivates writingâand the field.
almost 2 years ago
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In recognition of the Robert Motherwell Book Award for my "Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art," I'll be giving a lecture at Artists Space in NYC on December 15th at 7pm. Sponsored by Dedalus Foundation.
almost 2 years ago
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'll be giving a talk at Stanford on Thursday 11/17 if you're in the San Francisco area and so inclined...
art.stanford.edu/events/weint...
almost 2 years ago
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