Navesink Wealth Management Endowed Honors College Lecture Series Presents R.C. Baker.
The Navesink Wealth Management Endowed Honors College Lecture Series supports speakers who are focused on providing an inspiring vision of innovation and social purpose.
About the Lecture
"Bust to Boom to Burnout to Bonzo"
R.C. Baker has written extensively about the intersection of politics, global conflict, popular culture, and the visual arts of the 20th century, with an emphasis on the emergence of New York City as the center of the international art world after World War II. Combining images of 20th-century artworks, political events, advertising, and comics with audio clips of speeches, popular music, news reports, and ad jingles, Baker connects the various ways in which governments exercise power with how those policies influence culture, both “high” and “low.”
About the Speaker
R.C. Baker
Journalist at "The Village Voice", Multimedia Artist, Professor
R.C. Baker is a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellow whose work has been exhibited at Jennifer Baahng Gallery, the Drawing Center, White Columns, the Center for Book Arts, and other venues in New York City, as well as internationally. Baker is an adjunct professor at New York University in the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program, and is the New York News and Culture Editor for The Village Voice. He has written hundreds of reviews and numerous features and cover stories on art, popular culture, and politics, and spoken on these topics in New York City and internationally, including a recent keynote speech on Kazimir Malevich at NYC’s Ukrainian Museum, an overview of the alternative press at the Vienna Contemporary art fair, and “Cold War Gray,” at Bulgaria's National Gallery of Art, in Sofia. His essays have appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times and in Performing Arts Journal, exhibition catalogues, and other publications, and he is the recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation grant for Short-Form Writing. He lives and works in the Bronx, New York.
Schedule
7:45PM | Dinner with the Speaker
Invitation Only
6:00-7:30PM | Lecture
Academic Building, East, 2225
- Students who attend the entire lecture will be registered in a drawing for one of five $200 scholarships from the Honors College for books and supplies, which will be posted by March 1.
- Earn 2 HC Serves hours toward your Honors College community engagement requirement for attending.