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...Thursday, Catherine B. Lord ’71—a visual artist, writer, curator, and intellectual focusing on queer theory, feminist history, and colonialism—will receive the Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medal. Within a matter of days she will publish an article arguing that Valerie Solanas, better known as the woman who tried to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, should be taken more seriously as a voice in the feminist movement...
Born in Dominica to multicultural parents, Lord boasts an international background and a slew of accomplishments within the U.S. Since receiving her Master of Fine Arts, Lord has traveled between the country’s universities and foundations for the past 40 years, accumulating fellowships and professorships almost continuously—including one from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her visual art has been shown at various venues, including the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center; her writings have been published in numerous artistic journals. Currently she holds a position...
...selection panel favored Lord for the interdisciplinary nature of her career—which, in their view, is emblematic of the modern artist. “I love the way she approaches art,” says Helen Molesworth, the chief curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art and a member of the selection panel for the Arts Medal this spring. “She does so from the position of someone who makes art herself, from the position of someone deeply immersed in the history of ideas or the history of theory, and she is also an extraordinary writer...
...personal or political, and I’d rather taint either side of that with the other. People have politics. Politics inform people, and then they live their lives differently. People often react to ‘Her Baldness’ as a highly personal thing,” Lord says, stressing that such a view misrepresents the book’s aims. “But,” she adds, “something happens when you write down that stuff. It becomes something that’s outside of you. You put things into a form...
...Indeed, Lord is an intellectual at heart and if anything, she seems slightly uncomfortable that her work has been controversial. Her most recent project is a survey text called “Art and Queer Culture: 1885-2005,” on which she collaborated with her colleague Richard Meyer, Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. “Art and Queer Culture” was born from a failed attempt by the pair to curate a show on that topic. The idea originated from their work together on another exhibition about...