What Is Too Taboo in Contemporary Art?, Robert Storr, lecturer March 29, 2008

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art and Director of the 52nd Venice Biennale

What James McNeil Whistler called the “art of scandal” and what the public may think of at any given historical moment as “scandalous art” have been central features of the ongoing debates over avant-garde art since modernism first appeared in the nineteenth-century. But the hot-button works of one generation have a strange tendency to become the classics of the next. What art in our day has provoked the most heated controversy? And what are the chances it will endure as a cultural landmark in the future? Works by Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Chris Ofili, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy are considered.

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