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Health educators, feminist bloggers, and queer activists gathered at the Rethinking Virginity Conference on Monday to critique American society’s negative portrayal of losing one’s virginity...
...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...
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...
...looked at each other and said, ‘Why don’t we do a queer show?’” Lord said. “We made a proposal and sent it off to the obvious museums—museums I won’t name here, but that have demonstrated their dedication to contemporary art. Museums where we have connections. There was a resounding silence, if that’s possible.” Lord demurred about whether the subject matter was the cause of the show’s failure...
Meyer is more explicit about the controversial aspects of Lord’s work. “Even today,” he says, “most American art museums would shy away from a show focused on queer culture. Museum trustees and directors, especially behind closed doors, remain fairly conservative and risk-averse...