On leave Fall 2007.

Yvonne Rainer, Hand Movie, film still, 8 mm, 5 minutes, 1966. Courtesy of the artist.

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 about spectatorship in U.S. art of the 1960s, focusing on the performance career of Yvonne Rainer, is forthcoming from MIT Press, and a new project on intersections of art and activism will be published in Signs in 2008.