Free talk at 3pm
Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public.
Tamar Garb, 'Professor of History of Art, University College London', writer and curator, discusses themes connected to the exhibition
Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art. She graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town with a BA (Art) magna cum laude in 1978. In 1980 she was awarded an MA in Art Education from the Institute of Education, University of London and in 1982 she graduated with a MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. While working part time in secondary and further education, she completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute which was awarded in 1991. She was appointed as Lecturer at the Courtauld in 1988 and at UCL in 1989 and was promoted to reader in 1995 and professor in 2001.
Her interests have turned recently to post apartheid culture and art and her current research is on questions of gender, sexuality and race in the new South Africa. Feminist politics in the context of global and international developments in theory and practice remain pressing concerns.
Nancy Spero in her Studio, New York 1974
Photograph: Joyce Ravid
