Tribeca Film Festival kicks off...
In case you're living under a rock, the annual Tribeca Film Festival has kicked off in New York City. There are lots of goodies this year. This week I'm headed to the festival to check out several films including Christina Clausen's moving documentary on downtown queer pop-art icon Keith Haring.
There seems to be a resurgence of scholarly interest in Haring as of late, particularly in relationship to questions of racial desire and appropriation. Scott Herring recently published a great essay in Public Culture on Keith Haring, and if you're interested in a brilliant assessment of the racialized politics of his oeuvre, you should check out Ricardo Montez's dissertation "Riding/Writing the Line:. Keith Haring, Race, and the Performance of Desire” which he wrote in the department of performance studies under the direction of Jose Esteban Munoz. Ricardo is currently a PostDoc in Latino Studies in NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and heads to Princeton this fall as a Society of Fellows Scholar.
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