Jonathan Weinberg

Visual & Critical Studies Forum
On the Waterfront: Vito Acconci and New York’s Pier Groups

Wednesday, March 30 , 10 am – 12 pm
Boardroom, San Francisco campus

Jonathan Weinberg is a painter and art historian. He is the author of Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art; Fantastic Tales: the Photography of Nan Goldin; Ambition and Love in Modern American Art; and Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley and the First-American Avant-Garde. He co-edited with Diana Linden and Alejandro Anreus the anthology, The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere. Weinberg has taught at Bennington College, Cooper Union, and Yale University and he is currently a Visiting Critic in the Graduate Print Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has been an artist-in-residence numerous times across the U.S. and the recipient of many fellowships including the recent 2009 grant from Creative Capital to write the book Pier Groups: Art Along the New York City Waterfront in the 1970s and 80s. A mid-career retrospective of Weinberg’s paintings, curated by Jonathan Katz, will be on view at the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York in March 2010.