Lecture: Public Affections—The Revelations of Scott Burton’s Last Works

What does it mean for an artist to embed his lived queer experience into everyday objects? In the last years before his death of AIDS-related disease in 1989, Scott Burton created sculptures that started to lay bare the bodily, sexual, and social underpinnings of his practice. These semi-anonymous works often hide in plain sight as functional objects ready to be used and touched. He aimed for his work to be of service—even if they were not seen as art.

Join David Getsy, the award-winning historian of Burton’s art, for a lecture on how the human form came into focus in Burton’s final, lyric sculptures.

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