It is disheartening to see this 50th anniversary of the seminal exhibition Funk pass by without so much as a nod from the art world.
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Growing Up in the Shadow of the Art World
In 1972, at the age of fourteen, Gabrielle Selz was attending a party following the third wedding of her father, the art historian and UC Berkeley professor Peter Selz, when a naked woman she had never seen before climbed into Selz’s lap and began to roll a joint. As she did so, other wedding guests began to cheer.
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Art and the Politics of Acceptance: A Conversation With Peter Selz
Peter Selz — prolific curator, art historian, and an instrumental figure in the scholarship on modern art — hardly bears introduction.