The Old Weird America: With Robin Held and Greil Marcus - PART 4

Cynthia Norton. Dancing Squared, 2004. Aluminum, hardware, electric motors, dresses, wire. 90 x 180 x 180 inches. Courtesy the artist. © Rick Gardner Photography.

The Old Weird America: With Robin Held and Greil Marcus

Robin Held, Frye Art Museum deputy director, exhibitions and collections, met with author, culture critic, and music writer Greil Marcus for an intimate conversation in the award-winning exhibition The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art.

Marcuss most recent book is A New Literary History of America. The exhibition title is barrowed from Marcus third book The Old, Weird America: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes and was a starting point for exhibition curator Toby Kamps exploration of folk imagery and vivid American lore that inspired the contemporary artists featured in the exhibition.

The Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art was organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and has been made possible by the patrons, benefactors, and donors to the Museums Major Exhibition Fund. This exhibition has also been made possible by generous support from Union Pacific Foundation and Michael Zilkha. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition is made possible by a grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc. The exhibition has been coordinated for the Frye Art Museum by Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections.

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• Old Weird America
• Robin Held
• Greil Marcus
• Cynthia Norton
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This piece by Cynthia Norton is totally awesome. The commentary on this video is pretty interesting, but the work is also well worth seeing with just the sounds of the mechanisms and the motors.