Aspen Art Museum

Arch Connelly and the Glittery Alternative History of Postminimalism Lecture

In conjunction with the current exhibition Arch Connelly: Straighten Your Wig and Pray, Aspen Art Museum hosts a talk by art historian David J. Getsy exploring the artistic and cultural contexts surrounding the development of Connelly’s practice, with particular attention to the queer undercurrents of American art.

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PROGRAM: Arch Connelly and the Glittery Alternative History of Postminimalism Lecture

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Situating Connelly alongside figures including Lynda Benglis, Scott Burton, and Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Getsy will discuss how Connelly’s work can be situated in a counter-tradition characterized by the rejection of austere modes of high art in favor of decoration, functionality, excess, and glitter.

David J. Getsy writes about queer and transgender histories of art and performance. His books include Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (2022), Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (2015), and Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (2010). He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2025), the Robert Motherwell Book Award (2023), and is the International Scholar-in-Residence at the Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen during 2026. He teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History.

Image credit: Installation View: Arch Connelly, Straighten Your Wig and Pray, Aspen Art Museum, 2026. Photo: Paul Salveson.