Sarah Charlesworth (Q&A): Conversations with Contemporary Artists

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, much contemporary photography and video embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrrecuperable past. The "Haunted" exhibition documents this obsession, examining myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice, and, in the process, underscores the unique power of reproductive media. On the occasion of the exhibition, select artists featured in "Haunted" discuss the themes of their work. Curators introduce the programs and receptions, including an exhibition viewing, with the artists to follow.

Sarah Charlesworth
Tuesday, May 4, 6:30 pm
Employing a deconstructive technique inspired by Conceptual art and poststructuralist theory, the work of Sarah Charlesworth (b. 1947, East Orange, New Jersey) poses questions about photographic representation and the way history is reconstructed through photographs. In works such as "Herald Tribune: November 1977" (1977), for instance, she manipulated prints of newspaper pages to reveal how the news media can shape particular events, which in turn affect the opinions of the viewer.

Support for educational activities including public programs is provided in part by The Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Fund, The Engelberg Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Jane A. Lehman and Alan G. Lehman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Overbrook Foundation, and the Museum's Education Committee.

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• Sarah Charlesworth
• Guggenheim
• New York City
• Elaine Terner Cooper
• Education Fund
• Haunted
• Photography
• Video
• News Media
• Conceptual Art
• Poststructuralist Theory