VES 104: Culture Jam: Art and Activism since 1989
History of Art and Architecture 277s: Circa 1970

On leave spring 2009.

Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (MIT Press, 2008). Reproduced with permission of MIT Press.

Lambert-Beatty is an art historian whose research focuses on art since 1960, especially performance and video. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2002. She served for two years as managing editor of October magazine, and has been a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and the Getty Research Institute. Her writing on performance art, postmodern dance, and minimalism has been published in journals such as Trans, October, and Art Journal, and in the catalogs for the exhibitions A Minimal Future?: Art as Object 1958–1968 (MIT Press, 2004) and Radical Juxtapositions: Yvonne Rainer 1961–2002 (Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, 2003). Her book Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s, about spectatorship in U.S. art of the 1960s, focusing on the performance career of Yvonne Rainer, will appear in fall 2008 from MIT Press. She is working on a new project on intersections of art and activism, part of which was published in the journal Signs in winter 2008.