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Lecture by Jonathan D. Katz entitled "Andy Warhol’s Queer Desire and the Denial of Difference“ at Neue Nationalgalerie.
Despite its obvious importance in his life, sexuality remains largely incidental to most popular perceptions of Warhol’s character, as well as to art historical accounts of his achievements. In this talk, Jonathan D. Katz will argue against this oversight. Using the full text of a recently rediscovered 1963 interview with Gene Swenson that was ruthlessly edited to remove all references to queerness, Katz will argue the opposite, that Warhol’s work is best understood as something then quite fragile and new—a species of queer worldmaking in distinct opposition to the emerging Gay and Lesbian politics of the moment.
Jonathan D. Katz is an art historian, curator,and queer activist and Professor of Practice in Art History and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Arnheim Guest Professor.
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