Department of Art and Art History Special Programs

The annual Viewpoint Series, taking place each spring, is comprised of three separate visits by a pair of invited guests, each lasting several days and spread throughout the semester. During each visit, the guests present a public lecture and seminar, as well as offer private studio visits to graduate students. Viewpoint guests are leading curators, critics, and scholars involved in the diverse and multifaceted contemporary art world.

Spring 2013 Guests

Cary Levine

Cary Levine specializes in contemporary art. He received his PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is a recent recipient of a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Currently, he is writing a book on the work of Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon—three artists working in Southern California since the 1970s—to be published by the University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2013. Levine's research focuses on strategies of cultural politics in art, the miscegenation of art and music, and issues of subculture, gender, sexuality and popular culture.  He is particularly interested in discordant modes of critique, including caricature, the grotesque, parody, regression, black humor and the abject.

In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Dr. Levine has been an active art critic, writing for magazines such as Art in America and BOMB. He has published numerous essays for exhibition catalogues and also worked for three years in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is an Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Judith Rodenbeck

Judith Rodenbeck recieved a BA from Yale University, a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and her PhD from Columbia University. She teaches 20th and 21st century European and American art at Sarah Lawrence College, covering intersections between modernist literature, philosophy, and visual and time-based arts. She has a special interest in technology and feminist theory.

Dr. Rodenbeck is the author of Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings; co-author of Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts—Events, Objects, Documents and is a contributor to catalogues for the Guggenheim Museum, the Americas Society, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and serial publications such as Artforum, Grey Room, and October, among others. She was editor-in-chief of Art Journal from 2006–2009 and the Recipient of a 2009 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts.

Spring 2013 Events