# Abridged Curriculum Vitae **Current Position:** Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University; Faculty, Standing Committee on the Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for the Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies. **Education** Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Ph.D. 2002 in Art History Whitney Museum of American Ar Independent Study Program, New York, Critical Studies Fellow 1997-98 Washington University, St. Louis, MO, B.A. 1994 Summa Cum Laude in Art History and Anthropology **Awards & Honors** W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship, Fall 2014, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Radcliffe Alumnae Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, 2010-11 Roslyn Abramson Award (for undergraduate teaching), Harvard University, 2009 Winner, de la Torre Bueno Prize from the Society of Dance History Scholars (awarded to one book annually that advances the field of dance history) for *Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s*, 2008 Getty Research Institute Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-05 Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2000-01 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 1999-2000 **Employment** **Harvard University,** Cambridge, MA, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, July 2004-June 2010 **Northwestern University**, Evanston IL: Assistant Professor, September 2001 to June 2004 **October Magazine**, New York, NY: Managing Editor, September 1999 to July 2001 **Publications** ***Book:*** *Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s* (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008). Excerpt reprinted and translated in *Yvonne Rainer: Raum Körper Sprache / Space Body Language,* ed. Yilmaz Dziewior and Barbara Engelbach (exhib. cat. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Museum Ludwig, 2012). ***Essays, etc.:*** “The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art,” in *Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present,* ed. Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson (New York: Blackwell, 2013). “In Formation: Notes on Terry Fox’s *Children’s Tapes,*” in *Found Sculpture and Photography From Surrealism to Contemporary Art,* ed. Anna Dezeuze and Julia Kelly (Farnham, England: Ashgate, Press, 2012). “The Draw of Dance,” in *Dance/Draw,* ed. Helen Molesworth (Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, October 2011). “Essentially Alien: Paul Chan’s Godot,” *Parkett* 88 (Spring 2011). “Recuperating Performance,” in *Allora & Calzadilla: Gloria.* U.S. Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale Di Venezia, Lisa Friedman, ed*.* (Prestell, 2011) “You’re Not Supposed to Talk About It: A Conversation,” with Carola Dertnig, in *Carola Dertnig* (Vienna, 2011). “Political People: Notes on Tania Bruguera’s Arte de Conducta,” *Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary*, ed. Helaine Posner (Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, 2010). “Against Performance Art,” *Artforum* (May 2010) 208-213. “Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility,” *October* 129 (Summer 2009). Reprinted with an addendum in *More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness*, exhibition catalog (Minneapolis Institute of Art, March 2013) “Fill in the Blank: Culture Jamming and the Advertising of Agency,” *New Directions for Youth Development* 125*,* Special Issue*: Cultural Agents and Creative Arts* (Spring 2010), 99–112. “From Critique to Clique” (exhibition review, “theanyspacewhatever,” Guggenheim Museum), *Texte zur Kunst* 73 (March 2009) (German and English). “Twelve Miles: Boundaries of the New Art/Activism,” *Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society* vol. 33, no. 2 (Winter 2008), 309-29. Updated version as “Women, Waves, Web,” in *The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Politics*, ed. Meg McLagan and Yates McKee (New York: Zone Books, Fall 2012) “Part Object, Part Sculpture” (exhibition review), *Artforum* (February 2006). "More or Less Minimalism: Performance and Visual Art in the 1960s,” in *A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968* (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004). “Other Solutions,” *Art Journal* vol. 63, no. 3 (Fall 2004), 49-61. “On Being Moved: Rainer and the Aesthetics of Empathy,” in *Radical Juxtapositions: Yvonne Rainer 1961-2003*, ed. Sid Sachs (Philadelphia: Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, 2003), 41-63. Reprinted (revised) as “Lives of Performers and the Trouble with Empathy,” in the anthology *Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema,* ed. Ted Perry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006). Translated in *Yvonne Rainer: Une Femme Qui…: écrits, entretiens, essays critiques,* ed. Catherine Quéloz (Dijon: Les presses du réel and Zurich, JRP/Ringier, 2008 (French). “Documentary Dialectics: Performance Lost and Found,” *Visual Resources* 16 (Summer 2000), 275-85. “Moving Still: Mediating Yvonne Rainer’s *Trio A,*” *October* 89 (Summer 1999), 87-112. **Work in progress** (Under contract, University of Chicago Press) “Make Believe: Contemporary Art.” Book manuscript on deception as a tactic in intersections of art and politics since 1990. **Other Professional Activities** Editor, *October* magazine. April 2008- Peer reviews: *Art Bulletin, Art History, Art Journal, Differences, Signs, University of Manchester Press* Grant and award evaluator/nominator: Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program; others. Founder and supervising director, *Bring Your Own: Contemporary Conversations at the Carpenter Center,* a series of public conversations with young and emerging artists, critics, and curators at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, now directed and coordinated by an interdisciplinary committee of graduate students. **Selected teaching** *Harvard University* Deception (Graduate Seminar), Spring 2014 Art and Historical Memory, 1980 to the present (Undergraduate Seminar), Spring 2006, Fall 2009 Circa 1970 (Graduate Seminar), Fall 2005, Fall 2008, Spring 2012 Contemporary Art (Lecture), Spring 2010, Spring 2012 The Contemporary (Graduate Seminar), Spring 2010 Culture Jam: Art and Activism Since 1989 (Undergraduate Seminar), Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2011 Introduction to Video Art: Art in Media Culture (Lecture), Spring 2006, Spring 2007 History of Art and Architecture Junior Tutorials: Relational Aesthetics; Deception and Contemporary Art History of Art and Architecture Senior Honors Seminar, Fall 2009 *Northwestern University* Art in the United States to 1850 (Lecture) Art in the United States 1850-present (Lecture) Early Video Art (Graduate Seminar) Introduction to American Art (Lecture) Minimalism (Graduate Seminar) The Sixties: High Culture, Culture Industry, Counterculture (Freshman Seminar) U.S. Art in the 1960s (Lecture) CV upload: [complete cv](/files/lambert-beatty/files/cv.pdf)