Join us Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 pm, for a special visit with legendary curator and critic Dan Cameron. Cameron will present and discuss files connected to his in-progress Transmissions project, which examines communication between artists in different parts of the world who were impacted by AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s. He will bring archival boxes and unpack and spread out individual files on major figures like Keith Haring, Martin Wong, and Peter Hujar, along with lesser-known figures like Swedish gallerist Anders Tornberg (1937-1997), Los Angeles artist group Les Petites BonsBons, and Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurion (1962-1996).

Beginning later this year, these archives will be transferred to the Archives of American Art, so this may be the only public presentation of this material!

This event is free and open to the public.

About Dan Cameron

Dan Cameron is a curator, writer, educator, and artist. Throughout his 40-plus-year career organizing exhibitions, he has championed both the unexpected and the under-recognized. In 1982, he was the first American curator to organize a museum exhibition on LGBTQ art, Extended Sensibilities, at The New Museum; and in 2008 he launched the Prospect New Orleans triennial in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He has curated international biennials in Istanbul, Taipei, Ecuador, and Orange County, California, as well as retrospectives of esteemed artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Paul McCarthy, Peter Saul, William Kentridge, Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Marcel Odenbach, Pierre et Gilles, Cildo Meireles, and Martin Wong. As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative in 2017, the Palm Springs Art Museum hosted Dan’s exhibition Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969. His writings have been widely published, and he’s taught at Columbia University, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Louisiana State University and CalState Fullerton. After growing up in nearby Hudson Falls, he’s lived in downtown Manhattan since 1979.