Lucy R. Lippard: Weather Report April 9, 2012

Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, curator, editor, lecturer, activist, and author of 21 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, most recently Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782 (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2010), The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (The New Press, 1997, 1999). She is a recipient of eight honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation grant, and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, among other awards. Her most recent curatorial venture was Weather Report: Art and Climate Change (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007). She lives in rural Galisteo, New Mexico where she is on the County Traditional Community Planning Committee and for 15 years has edited the monthly community newsletter, El Puente de Galisteo.