RoseLee Goldberg
RoseLee Goldberg, art historian, critic, curator and author whose book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (London University), she was director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York. In 1990 she organized "Six Evenings of Performance" as part of the acclaimed exhibition "High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Author of Performance: Live Art Since 1960 and Laurie Anderson, she is a frequent contributor to Artforum and other magazines. In 2001-02 Goldberg originated and produced Logic of the Birds, a full length multimedia production by Iranian born artist Shirin Neshat in collaboration with singer Sussan Deyhim, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2002 and toured to the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis and to Artangel in London. RoseLee Goldberg has lectured extensively at The Architectural Association in London, California Institute of the Arts, Yale, Princeton and Tate Modern, and has taught at New York University since 1987.
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RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, critic, curator and author whose Performance Art from Futurism to the Present (1979) helped pioneer the study of performance art; she graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art and held curatorial posts including director of the Royal College of Art Gallery (London) and curator at The Kitchen (New York). She organized Six Evenings of Performance in 1990 for High and Low at the Museum of Modern Art and authored Performance: Live Art Since 1960. In 2001–02 she originated and produced Logic of the Birds by Shirin Neshat, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2002 and toured to Minneapolis and London; she has taught at New York University since 1987.
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