Book Talk: Between the Lines, with Duke Professor Pedro Lasch

Come celebrate the launch of the museum retrospective catalogue Pedro Lasch: Between the Lines, distributed by D.A.P. in the USA and Temblores Publications in Latin America and Europe. Thoroughly illustrated, the catalogue brings together thirty years of the artist's work, with essays by critics and exhibition curator Lucía Sanromán, as well as introductions by Mexico's minister of culture and the director of the National Institute for Fine Arts (INBAL). The exhibition at Laboratorio Arte Alameda's striking colonial venue turned contemporary art museum included over one hundred artworks, was highly attended and widely reviewed in international press, including ArtForum, e-flux Criticism, El Universal, and Reforma, as well as national TV segments across Mexico.

We will also celebrate Lasch's winning of a national competition from Zocalo Public Square and Stanford University's Institute for Advancing Just Societies, leading to a new monumental 'Black Mirror' commission that will be permanently installed in California and unveiled May 2nd at the Asheville Art Museum during an event with notable respondents including the New York Times' Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Lasch will discuss his new book with Paul Jaskot, Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. As part of the works exhibited and addressed in the catalogue, our conversation will include Lasch's FHI Social Practice Lab and Mellon Foundation ART of the MOOC series and its newly released course on 'Colors, Bodies, Power'. Local collaborators for this project may also be present for the conversation.