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“Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” is the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton’s work in an American institution. The survey will include more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years.
Peyton’s oeuvre can be read in chapters, each of which feature portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and fleeting passions. “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” will offer a visual biography of the artist, and at the same time create a snapshot of the popular culture of the past decade.
“Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” premieres at the New Museum and will then travel to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, in Maastricht , The Netherlands. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon, Ltd. Designed by the award-winning Graphic Thought Facility, it will feature essays by Iwona Blazwick, critic, curator and director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; New York poet John Giorno; and Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum. The book will also include a large section of artworks, photographs, and ephemera organized by Peyton. Support for the accompanying publication is provided by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum. via NewMuseum
