National treasure Jayson Musson (a.k.a. Hennessy Youngman) will be in conversation with fancy art guy Huey Copeland tonight as part of Gallatin’s Albert Gallatin Lectures series.
Huey Copeland is director of graduate studies and an associate professor of art history at Northwestern; he also maintains positions as a sometimes-curator and a frequent contributor to some silly rumor rags like Artforum and other publications. He has a Ph.D from Berkeley, and his academic work focuses on the African-American experience and gender, especially in modern and contemporary art. His forthcoming book, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America, focuses on the work of black artists like Glenn Liigon and Lorna Simpson to explore the influence of slavery on twentieth-century art.
