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Telling a Life, Telling Art History

January 10, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Conversation and Book Signing
Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Judith Stein and Jonathan Katz

Please join us for a conversation 9780374151324_fcon biography and art history with Judith Stein, author of Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, and Jonathan D. Katz, author of the forthcoming Cold War Queer: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet.  Stein’s new book recovers the lost history of the elusive art dealer who launched the careers of numerous contemporary artists at his fabled Green Gallery in New York.

A book signing for Eye of the Sixties, available for purchase, will follow the conversation.

Vulture magazine named Eye of the Sixties as one of the year’s ten best art books in 2016!

Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything, The New York Times, Art & Design, by Barbara Rose, July 22, 2016

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Judith Stein
Peter Bellamy, Dick Bellamy at the Oil & Steel Gallery on Chambers  Street, NY, c. 1983
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George Segal, Richard Bellamy Seated, 1964. Plaster and metal

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Date:
January 10, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm