Faculty

Douglas Crimp

Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

PhD, Art History, City University of New York, 1994

518 Morey Hall
(585) 273-5622
douglas.crimp@rochester.edu

Photo credit: Dorothea Tuch

In residence fall semesters only.

Before Pictures, Brooklyn, Dancing Foxes Press/Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016.
“Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy Warhol, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2012.
Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2002.
On the Museum’s Ruins, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1993 (Getty Publication Grant).
AIDS Demo Graphics (with Adam Rolston), Seattle, Bay Press, 1990 (nominated for Lambda Book Award).
AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (editor), Cambridge, MIT Press, 1988 (Excellence in publishing Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division; Special Recognition, Words Project for AIDS).

Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970to the Present (with Lynne Cooke), Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and Cambridge, MIT Press, 2010; see interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyzmng2Mh44
Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions, Berkeley, University Art Museum, and Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Pictures, New York, Artists Space, 1977.

“Inside the Dance: Charles Atlas’s Early Collaborations with Merce Cunningham,” in Charles Atlas—, New York, Luhring Augustine, and Munich, Prestel, 2015.
“You Can Still See Her: The Art of Trisha Brown,” Artforum, January 2011.
“Dancers, Artworks, and People in the Galleries,” Artforum, October 2008.
“Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover,” Grey Room 22, Winter 2006.
“Getting the Warhol We Deserve,” Social Text 59, Summer 1999.
“Mourning and Militancy,” October, Winter 1989.
“Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Armin, and All the Others,” October, Summer 1982.
“Pictures,” October, Spring 1979.

“WAR IS TERROR,” in Louise Lawler: Receptions, published in conjunction with the exhibition Lousie Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2017.
“Four Events that Have Led to Large Discoveries (about Merce Cunningham),” in Merce Cunningham: Common Time, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2017.
“Relocating Rosas,” in Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid, Brussels, WIELS/Rosas, Mercatorfonds, 2015.
“Pedagogical Vaudeville,” in Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language, Bregenz, Kunsthaus, and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 2012.
“TACET,” in Tacita Dean: Seven Books Grey, Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, 2011.

Interview of Douglas Crimp Conducted by Johanna Burton, March 8, April 18, August 23, 2009, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Mathias Danbolt, “Front Room—Back Room: An Interview with Douglas Crimp,” Trikster, http://www.trikster.net/2/crimp/1.html
Tina Takemoto, “The Melancholy of AIDS: Interview with Douglas Crimp,” Art Journal 62, no. 4, Winter 2003; Japanese translation in InterCommunication (Tokyo) 51, Winter 2005.

Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, 2011
Sixteenth Annual David R. Kessler honoree, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2007
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 2000
Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, College Art Association, 1988
Art Critics Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1984
Art Critics Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1973

Editor, October, 1986-90; Executive Editor, 1983‑86; Managing Editor, 1977-1983
Guest Curator, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2009-2010
Guest Curator, Artists Space, New York, 1977
Advisory Board, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York
Advisory Board, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts
Advisory Board, InVisible Culture, University of Rochester