#TBT: Douglas Crimp, Archives of Femininity

This coming Monday, July 5, marks the second anniversary of the passing of Douglas Crimp, the hugely influential art historian, curator, educator and AIDS activist who gave name to the Pictures Generation.

Crimp visited the Wex in November of 2017 to give that year's Lambert Family Lecture in conjunction with Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life, a retrospective of work by arguably the most well-known member of that generation. Invited to the center by his old friend, Wex Curator-at-Large Bill Horrigan, Crimp discussed his then-new semi-memoir Before Pictures and focused on nine artists, including Sherman and contemporaries such as Sherrie Levine, who have explored femininity as a construct.

For #TBT, we're happy to reshare Crimp's warm, thoughtful, and engaging talk above. We hope you'll enjoy this hour with him.