The New Social Environment#444
Noisy Autumn: Christy Rupp
Featuring Rupp and Eleanor Heartney
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1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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Artist Christy Rupp joins Rail Editor-at-Large Eleanor Heartney for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Bob Holman.
In this talk
Christy Rupp
Born in Rochester, New York, Christy Rupp began her career as an artist in the 1980’s at Fashion Moda, an alternative space in the South Bronx where artists made art, exchanged ideas, and exhibited. She graduated Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in 1977 with an MFA in Sculpture. Rupp has taught in a number of universities including Bard College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, Brooklyn College (CUNY), and Lehman College (CUNY). She has been involved in a number of public art projects and commissions. Rupp’s sculptures incorporate the science of animal behavior with metaphoric allusion of isolation and alienation, and her compositions are often related to environmental issues.
Eleanor Heartney
Eleanor Heartney has been writing about art since 1981. She is a longtime contributor to Art in America, Contributing Editor to Artpress, Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for Artnews, Artnet, Art and Auction, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Heartney was the 1992 recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and was honored in 2008 by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her most recent book is the co-authored Mothers of Invention: the Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Bob Holman reading.
Bob Holman
An American poet and poetry activist, Bob Holman is equal parts spoken word performer, professor, impresario, activist, proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, filmmaker and host of Language Matters (2015 Documentary of the Year, Berkeley Film Festival), and beyond. From slam to hip-hop, from performance to spoken word, he’s been a central figure in redefining poetry as it exists on, off, and beyond the page. Author of 17 poetry collections, he was described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New Yorker as “the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti.” Bob is a contributor of the Brooklyn Rail. His two recent books, The UnSpoken and Life Poem (both YBK/Bowery Books, 2019), were written fifty years apart.
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