Jeff Nagy

Jeff Nagy is a media historian and translator based in Palo Alto, CA. Two translations from French are forthcoming in 2017: Alice Michel’s Degas and His Model and Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s Pissing Figures, both from David Zwirner Books.


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Carolee Schneemann’s Unforgivable Art

There’s this old joke. The set-up is always the same: two guys walk into an exhibition catalog. Here’s one version, as told by Carolee Schneemann to Kenneth White in spring of last year, about Happenings and Fluxus, the Harald Szeemann–curated 1970 exhibition in Cologne: So one morning we were sitting around the lunch table, where […]