Opening Reception + Artist Talk with James Hoff and David Joselit for Salad Days: Primary Information

Join us for an Artist Talk and Opening Reception celebrating Carpenter Center presents Salad Days: Primary Information

6:00–7:00 pm, Artist Talk, Sert Gallery, Level 3
7:00–8:00 pm, Opening Reception, Level 3 + Terrace

Free and open to the public. 

James Hoff is an artist living and working in New York. His work encompasses a variety of media, including sound, video, painting, and publishing. Hoff founded Primary Information with Miriam Katzeff in 2006 to publish historical and contemporary artists’ books. He has edited more than one hundred publications for the organization, including Joseph Grigely’s Otherhow: Essays and Documents on Art and Disability 1985–2024, Barbara T. Smith’s I Am Abandoned, Mary Heilmann’s The All Night Movie, Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Live Audio Essays, Martin Wong’s Footprints, Poems and Leaves, David Wojnarowicz’s Dear Jean Pierre, Michael Snow’s Cover to Cover, Cornelius Cardew’s Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73, and Womens Work, among many others.

David Joselit began his career as a curator at The ICA in Boston from 1983-1989. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1995, he has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and Yale University where he was Department Chair of History of Art from 2006-09, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Joselit is author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (MIT, 1998), American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003), Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT, 2007), After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT, 2020) which was awarded the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award. He co-organized the exhibition, “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” which opened at the Brandhorst Museum in Munich in 2015. Joselit is an editor of the journal OCTOBER and writes regularly on contemporary art and culture. His most recent book is Art’s Properties (Princeton University Press, 2023).