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SAVE THE DATE!! — Tuesday, Sept 22, 6:30 at Peter Freeman Inc. Gallery at 140 Grand St, New York, NY 10013– Hope to see you there!
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2026 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
This panel, moderated by photographer and writer Chris Wiley, explores The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience, by Martha Schwendener, art historian and critic, and the painter James Hyde’s The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History. These books confront what history means at a time described as ‘post-historical’ by Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), the subject of Schwendener’s book, and an important figure in Hyde’s. The conversation will concern the shaping of history and visual art in a new information age.
Martha Schwendener is an art historian and art critic for the NYT.. She is Visiting Associate Professor at New York University and Researcher in Residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Flusser’s Essays // Artforum (Metaflux, 2017) and The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience. Her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Afterimage, Bookforum, Critical Inquiry, e-flux, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, October, RES, and other publications.
James Hyde is a practicing painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s. His recent book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History, is the first critical study of “pictorial space” as a historical construction. Hyde’s paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Phillips Collection, Museo Cantonale d’Arte and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.
Chris Wiley is an artist and writer. His writing has appeared in numerous catalogs and publications including Frieze, Aperture, and the New Yorker, where he regularly writes for PhotoBooth. His artwork has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Atlanta Contemporary, Hauser and Wirth and Marian Goodman Gallery, among others. He is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2026 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
This panel, moderated by photographer and writer Chris Wiley, explores The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience, by Martha Schwendener, art historian and critic, and the painter James Hyde’s The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History. These books confront what history means at a time described as ‘post-historical’ by Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), the subject of Schwendener’s book, and an important figure in Hyde’s. The conversation will concern the shaping of history and visual art in a new information age.
Martha Schwendener is an art historian and art critic for the NYT.. She is Visiting Associate Professor at New York University and Researcher in Residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Flusser’s Essays // Artforum (Metaflux, 2017) and The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience. Her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Afterimage, Bookforum, Critical Inquiry, e-flux, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, October, RES, and other publications.
James Hyde is a practicing painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s. His recent book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History, is the first critical study of “pictorial space” as a historical construction. Hyde’s paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Phillips Collection, Museo Cantonale d’Arte and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.
Chris Wiley is an artist and writer. His writing has appeared in numerous catalogs and publications including Frieze, Aperture, and the New Yorker, where he regularly writes for PhotoBooth. His artwork has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Atlanta Contemporary, Hauser and Wirth and Marian Goodman Gallery, among others. He is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.
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