"Light Trap for Dan Flavin"-- The Leroy and Dorothy Lavine Lecture presented by independent...

Bartos Theater Dan Flavin's landmark Green Gallery exhibition in 1964 was a dividing point in the development of his work. Focusing on the precise nature of the fluorescent lamp (both the object and the light) as Flavin's sole medium, the talk will bracket Flavin in the context of the rise of so-called minimal art, seeking instead to position his early work within a more complex historical narrative centered on the re-emergence of Marcel Duchamp as an art world figure in New York... [read full story]