Art’s Properties: a conversation with David Joselit

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Professor David Joselit. Joselit is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies and Chair for Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) at Harvard University. Joselit began his career as a curator at The ICA in Boston from 1983-1989. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1995, he has also taught at the University of California, Irvine, and Yale University where he was Department Chair of History of Art from 2006-09, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Some of Joselit's most recent books are After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT, 2020) which was awarded the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award, and Art’s Properties (Princeton University Press, 2023). Gossett speaks with Joselit about his work as a curator, art historian and about art in an era of globalization.

Music Credit:

"erratum Musical (for three voices)” by Marcel Duchamp