“Rent as a Condition of the Aesthetic: On Jack Smith’s Hamlets”
Josh Lubin-Levy

John Dominis, *NYC Soho*, 1971. The LIFE Picture Collection, Getty Images.
Jack Smith, *Untitled*, c. 1970. Ink on paper, 14 × 11 inches. Copyright Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
 

Josh Lubin-Levy is a scholar, dramaturg, and curator based in New York City who works on the intersection of dematerialization and collection-defying arts practices that emerged within postwar American art. He teaches classes on dance dramaturgy, art history, queer theory, performance studies and contemporary Marxist philosophy, with an emphasis on critical approaches to race, gender and sexuality. He earned his doctorate in Performance Studies (NYU) and is currently on faculty at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, the Senior Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal.

Image in menu: Jack Smith, “Humanizing” Rectangles, n.d. Ink on paper, 3 × 5 inches. Copyright Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photographed in the archive by the author.

“Rent as a Condition of the Aesthetic: On Jack Smith’s Hamlets”
Josh Lubin-Levy

 

Josh Lubin-Levy is a scholar, dramaturg, and curator based in New York City who works on the intersection of dematerialization and collection-defying arts practices that emerged within postwar American art. He teaches classes on dance dramaturgy, art history, queer theory, performance studies and contemporary Marxist philosophy, with an emphasis on critical approaches to race, gender and sexuality. He earned his doctorate in Performance Studies (NYU) and is currently on faculty at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, the Senior Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal.

Image in menu: Jack Smith, “Humanizing” Rectangles, n.d. Ink on paper, 3 × 5 inches. Copyright Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photographed in the archive by the author.