Lucas Zwirner in Conversation with Tau Lewis and Woody De Othello

Wednesday April 12, 2023 6 PM
Amphithéâtre GESÙ
1200, rue Bleury

In English
Free admission. No reserved seats

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Left: Lucas Zwirner by Weston Wells; upper right: Tau Lewis, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and 52 Walker, New York. Photo by Hannah Price; lower right: Photo by Woody De Othello

Join us for a compelling conversation about the realities of contemporary art world success. Tau Lewis and Woody De Othello, two of the most exciting and innovative artists of our time, will share their experiences and insights into the intricate relationship between artistic demands and their creative processes. As a respected leader in the art world and a driving force behind many creative initiatives, Lucas Zwirner, head of content at David Zwirner Gallery, will moderate the discussion and bring his unique perspective to the conversation. As part of a generation that is redefining the boundaries and possibilities of contemporary art, each will offer their perspectives on the complexities of the post-pandemic art world. Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking dialogue that will inspire, challenge, and elevate your understanding of contemporary art.

Art Speaks is dedicated to presenting a platform of international artists and thinkers to provoke and stimulate thought.

Lucas Zwirner is Head of Content at David Zwirner where he oversees all aspects of gallery publishing through books, web, film, and podcasts. In addition to spearheading the ekphrasis series, short texts on visual culture by artists and writers rarely available in English, and the award-winning podcast Dialogues, Lucas also helps lead select digital initiatives, including Platform, a standalone company founded in 2021. He is also a writer and translator, whose work has appeared in The Drift,The Paris Review, and An Elias Canetti Reader, edited by Josh Cohen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a graduate of Yale College where he studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy.

Tau Lewis (b. 1993, Toronto Canada) was most recently on exhibition at The 59th Venice Biennale and at 52 Walker, New York, NY. She has exhibited in several museums and institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; New Museum, New York, NY; Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK; College Art Galleries, Saskatoon, SK; and elsewhere. Lewis’s work has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library Collection, New York, NY; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; among others. Lewis currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Woody De Othello (b. 1991, Miami) holds an MFA from the California College of Arts, San Francisco and BFA from Florida Atlantic University. His work is in the permanent collections of ICA, Miami; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and MAXXI National Museum of 21^st Century Art, Rome, Italy, and many more. Othello has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; the first FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial; the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia; and the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, among others. He is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Karma, New York. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA.

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Art and the Defiance of Viral Circulation
Jason Farago

Monday, May 16, 2022 at 6 pm
Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1379-A Sherbrooke Street West

In English
Free. Reservations required (service charge applies)

Presented by ART SPEAKS and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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Photo Credit : Photo Charles Aubin

Art Speaks and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts are proud to present an original lecture by one of today’s pre-eminent writers about art and culture, The New York Times’ critic at large, Jason Farago, who will speak about art criticism in the digital age.

The last decade brought with it a wholesale transformation of how we encounter images: on screens and via networks, through shares and in feeds, shorn of context, recaptioned, refashioned, and sent on their way once again. When war, illness, entertainment and personal lives all flow through the same image stream, how (if at all) can art retain its distinction? In this talk, Farago will explore the history of image circulation from the printing press to Instagram, the new methods artists forged in response, and the endurance of art in a world of viral images.

Jason Farago, critic at large for The New York Times, writes about art and culture in the U.S. and abroad. In 2022 he was awarded one of the inaugural Silvers-Dudley Prizes for criticism and journalism. He previously wrote for the Guardian, serving as its first U.S. art critic and as an online opinion columnist. He has also been a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the BBC, NPR, the New York Review of Books and Artforum. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, both in art history.

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The talk will be presented in English and will be followed by a question period in French and English. Face covering required for the duration of the event.

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Catherine Opie & Robin Coste Lewis

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 7pm
Cinéma du Musée
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1379-A Sherbrooke Street West

In English
Presented by Art Speaks

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Image : Catherine Opie, Untitled #6, 2012, Pigment print, 40 x 60 inches ©Catherine Opie, Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul. | * Robin Coste Lewis, “On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari,” Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) 12.

Video credit Ralitsa Doncheva
Photo credit Vivardy Boursiquot

Art Speaks is delighted to present a fascinating conversation between artist CATHERINE OPIE and poet ROBIN COSTE LEWIS. This candid dialogue will be grounded on ideas that intersect in their work such as feminism, motherhood, identity, representation and the colour blue. Opie and Lewis were both recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships in 2019.

Catherine Opie (b. 1961) is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, and abroad. In 2008, the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened a mid-career exhibition titled, Catherine Opie: American Photographer. She is a professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Robin Coste Lewis (b.1964) is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. Her poetry debut, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2015) was honoured with the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Lewis has published her work widely in various journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among others. Currently, she is a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Southern California.

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