Episode 18: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Clocks, & Candy

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• Andrea Rosen Gallery – Andrea Rosen is the executor of FGT’s estate. Rosen greatly limited the capacities of her gallery in 2017 to focus on her responsibilities as a representative to the estate. The gallery website includes a biography, images, and other information about FGT and his art.
• Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
• Spector, Nancy. Felix Gonzalez-Torres. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1995. 
• Ault, Julie, ed. Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Göttingen: SteidlDangin, 2006. [Edited volume with essays and interviews by various artists, critics, and scholars]
• Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994.
• Anne Jennifer Cushwa. “Untitled: A Dissertation for Felix Gonzalez-Torres.” Unpublished PhD dissertation completed at the University of Iowa, 2005. [I limited the amount of information I pulled from the dissertation in the episode, as the dissertation remains unpublished. It did, however, provide excellent background on FGT’s contracts, his portraits, and general background information.]
• Joan Kee, “Félix Gonzàlez-Torres on Contracts,” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 26, issue 3 (Spring 2017): 517-531.
• VisualAIDS – Felix Gonzalez-Torres
• HIV.gov – A Timeline of HIV&AIDs
• Guggenheim – Felix Gonzalez-Torres
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – Felix Gonzalez-Torres
• Doug Ashford – Group Material – Great source for further information on Group Material
• “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) – a collaborative exhibition between David Zwirner and the Andrea Rosen Gallery

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Happy listening! -L