April 12, 1999 Volume 21, No. 14

Handwerker Gallery Hosts Art Historian The Handwerker Gallery of Art’s Critical Forum series will present a lecture by art historian Keith Moxey on Tuesday, April 20. Moxey will discuss "Nostalgia for the Real: The Troubled Relation of Art History and Visual Studies" at the gallery at 5:00 p.m. His talk is free and open to the public. A professor of art history at Columbia University’s Barnard College, Moxey is the author of Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation and The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics, and Art History, as well as the coeditor of Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation, Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations, and The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspectives, among other books. He has received two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute grants, and in 1998 he was codirector of the Getty Summer Institute on Visual and Cultural Studies, which he will codirect again this summer. Handwerker Gallery director Jelena Stojanovic says the Critical Forum series, by hosting noted art historians, critics, and scholars who share their current research on and thoughts about issues of representation, "aims to expose the different strategies used to produce images, thereby helping art history students and the larger community become perceptive critics."