LEAVING A MESSAGE
A series of loose, moral lectures about New York in the 1980s, centred around three painters. Written and delivered in the halting raconteur style, with a cinematic narrative privileging match-cuts and reveals, to the painting students at the Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Fall 2011.
Lecture 1 — JUNK MAIL ADDRESSED TO THE DEAD
Eric Fischl
Edouard Manet
Francisco Goya
Alex Katz
Philip Pearlstein
Stanley Spencer
Balthus
Jackson Pollock
Frank Stella
Carl Andre
Sol LeWitt
Donald Judd
Andy Warhol
On Kawara
Sherrie Levine
Edward Hopper
Robert Frank
Agbagli Kossi
Richard Serra
David Salle
April Gornik
Steven Yazzie
Kiki Smith
Jasper Johns
Jeff Koons
Francis Picabia
Lecture 2 — PAINTINGS FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED
Martin Wong
The Cockettes
Sylvester
Horace Pippin
Joseph Yoakum
Henri Rousseau
James Castle
Heinrich Reisenbauer
Danny Lyon
Caravaggio
Lecture 3 — THE ANSWERING SERVICE
Sue Williams
Kiki Smith
Lorna Simpson
Nancy Spero
Susan Sontag
Andrea Dworkin
Tom Ford
Svedka Vodka
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