September 16, 2020
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to present Tangled Tango, featuring A.I.R. New York Artist Susan Bee in conversation with essayist, novelist, and founder of Writers Against Trump Siri Hustvedt. The event is organized in conjunction with Susan Bee’s exhibition Anywhere Out of the World.
Videography and editing of the conversation provided by Gabe Rubin. A full transcript of the talk is available upon request.
Susan Bee has been a member of A.I.R. Gallery since 1996. This is her ninth solo show at the gallery. She has had solo shows at Southfirst Gallery, Lisa Cooley Gallery, Accola Griefen Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Odetta, Belmont University, Kenyon College, Columbia University, William Paterson College, the New York Public Library, Pratt Institute Library, Virginia Lust Gallery, and her work has been included in numerous group shows.
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Hustvedt is founder of Writers Against Trump.