Roselee goldberg biography

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator of performance art.
RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator of performance art.
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RoseLee Goldberg

I just feel we’ve got to produce things like these, that you’ll never forget. These ideas just keep bursting out. ROSELEE GOLDBERG

As writer, curator, teacher, and producer, RoseLee Goldberg has been a foremost champion of performance art since before the form had a name. She was the first to write it into the historical record with her groundbreaking 1979 book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. (Her follow-up book, Performance: Live Art Since 1960, told the story in pictures.) Performa, the biennial she founded in New York in 2004, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary with the November premiere of a collaborative work by Francesco Vezzoli and David Hallberg, followed by 77 events around the city. Born in Durban, South Africa, when the country was under apartheid rule, Goldberg grew up as a dancer in a middle-class family that enjoyed the privileges accorded to whites, but from an early age, she was acutely aware of the multiplicity of cultures and the boundaries between them. Goldberg gives her age as “the same

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RoseLee Goldberg, world-renowned art historian, critic and curator, is Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Launched in 2004 to create a highly visible public platform for contemporary art and performance by artists, Performa, has changed public and academic perception of performance art with its exciting city-wide Biennial, ground-breaking commissions, publications, and original arts-broadcasting platform. Performa has inspired the establishment of performance departments in cultural institutions around the globe. Goldberg’s many publications include her pioneering book, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and now in fourteen languages; Laurie Anderson (2000), and Performance Now; Live Art for the 21st Century (2018). Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, Goldberg has organized performance series at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim and Garage in Moscow. Her many awards include Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government, Yoko Ono’s C

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Full Name: Goldberg, RoseLee

Gender: female

Date Born: 1946

Place Born: Durban, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): performance art, performances (creative events), and time-based works

Career(s): art critics and curators

Institution(s): New York University

Overview

Historian, curator, and art critic; specialist in time arts (performance art). Goldberg was born in South Africa when the country was under apartheid rule. She studied political science and fine arts at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg before matriculating to the University of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, achieving an MA in art history in 1970. Her thesis was titled Oskar Schlemmer and Bauhaus Performance. From 1972 to 1975, Goldberg was the director of the Royal College Art Gallery in London. She wrote for the magazine Studio International, principally responsible for special issues, Art/Architecture (1975) and Performance Art (1976).

Goldberg moved to New York in 1976 to teach at the Institute for Architecture and U