Recent and upcoming appearances

2024–2025
• 27 June 2025: “Form: Self and Experience,” seminar co-convened with Rachel Haidu and including Joan Kee and Jennifer Doyle, RAP25: The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute
• 27 February 2025: dialogue with Tom Burr, SculptureCenter NYC for the exhibition Álvaro Urbano: Tableau Vivant
• 13 December 2024: The Power Institute Lecture: “Unnatural relations: Queer abstraction and the intercourse of forms in contemporary art,” Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in association with the Power Institute, University of Sydney
• 4–6 December 2024: “Illegitimate Heirs: Queer Artists’ Claims on the Modernist Canon,” Keynote, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, 50th Anniversary Conference, Australia National University, Canberra
• 20 November 2024: “Scott Burton’s Public Sculpture and the Knowledge of AIDS,” lecture for exhibition Scott Burton: Shape Shift at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
• 18 October 2024: respondent for panel “Figures in Excess,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference 15, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
• 19-21 September 2024: “Street Addresses: Performing the Queer Life of the Street in early 1970s New York,” Queer Art / Queer Archives, co-sponsored by the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville
• 14 September 2024: Keynote for symposium accompanying In Your Face: Barbara DeGenevieve, Artist and Educator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries
• 13 August 2024: Conversation with EJ Hill, Hammer Museum
• 27 March 2024: “How to Behave: Queer Performances and Public Feelings in the Early Work of Scott Burton,” Johns Hopkins University
• 22 February 2024: “Proximities: Scott Burton, Queer Performance, and Public Sculpture,” Ulrich Museum of Art
• 24 January 2024: Panel discussion: “Trans Art(s) of Abstraction,” University of Pennsylvania in relation to the exhibition Transcendent Mess: To Outwit Representation at Vox Populi

2021–2023
• 15 December 2023: Robert Motherwell Book Award Lecture, Dedalus Foundation, hosted by Artists Space NYC, 7pm. Watch the recording of the lecture.
• 16 November 2023: “Chic Radicals: Street Drag as Critical Performance Art in the late 1960s and 1970s,” Stanford University, Weintz Lecture, Department of Art & Art History
• 2-5 November 2023: “Gay (Method) Acting,” as part of the panel “Communing Freely: Avidity, Advocacy, and Outward Affinities,” with Elisabeth Anker, Ramzi Fawaz, and Darieck Scott, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Montréal
* 11 October 2023: “Undetectability: Scott Burton, Public Art, and Visibility in the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis,” Vassar College, Anges Rindge Claflin Lecture in Art
• 28 September 2023: “Chic Radicals: Street Drag as Critical Performance Art in the 1970s,” University of Florida, Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History lecture
• 15 June 2023, “Delinquency, Deviancy, and their Queer Refashionings in Art of the 1960s,” Wildenstein Plattner Institute, as part of series Between the Two: Art and Sexuality in 1960s New York [online]
• 25 April 2023: University of California at Irvine [online]
• 5 April 2023: Texas A&M University [online]
• 16 February 2023: panel chair, “The Difference Postminimalism Makes,” College Art Association annual conference, New York City
• 15 February 2023: “Dialogues in the Archives: David Getsy in conversation with Stuart Comer on Scott Burton,” Museum of Modern Art, Library Council and the Dedalus Foundation; event celebrating the publication of Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art
• 14 December 2022: “Actuality and Sculpture,” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds [online]
• 9 November 2022: Oxford University, Department of History of Art and Centre for Visual Studies
• 3 November 2022: “Transgender Studies and Art History,” Arts Humanities Preceptors Seminar, Columbia University [online]
• 22 October 2022: “Intimate Adjacencies and the Double in Queer Abstraction,” Double Vision: Identity and Difference in Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
• 13 October 2022: University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design Graduate Fine Arts Lecture Series
• 6 October 2022, “Street Talk: Trans Actresses, Gay Liberation, and the Queer Addresses of the Hot Peaches’s Alice in Greenwich Village in 1973,” Department of American Studies, University of Virginia
• 29 September-1 October 2022: “Scott Burton’s Embrace,” keynote lecture for the conference Surrogates: Embodied Histories of Sculpture in the Short Twentieth Century, Yale University
• 11-14 July 2022: (co-lecture with Gavin Butt, Northumbria University) “Staging Downtown: Queer Performance and its Audiences in 1970s New York,” Approaching Downtown: Avant-Garde Cultural Production in New York City, 1970s-1990s, Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
• 18 May 2022: speaking at Dialoge I: Art—Political Responsibility—Social Justice, Center of Contemporary Art, Universität Graz, Austria
• 2 May 2022: “Queer Art in the U.S.: An Introduction,” Albemarle County LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group, Virginia
• 16 April 2022, keynote, Intercollegiate Art History Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.
• 11 April 2022: Tulane University
• 22 March 2022: “The Gutter Art of Stephen Varble: Genderqueer Performance and Costume Sculpture in 1970s New York,” Department of Sculpture + Expanded Media, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 16 December 2021: 2021–22 lecture series of the Städelschule, Frankfurt, 7pm CET (online).
• 21 October 2021: Workshop on queer methods, Mellon Foundation Chicago Objects Study Initiative, University of Chicago and Art Institute of Chicago
• 3 June 2021: Organizer, “Lives: Biography and Autobiography in New Writing about American Art,” Terra Foundation Symposium in American Art, Freie Universität Berlin. Speakers include Joan Kee, C. Ondine Chavoya, Cyle Metzger, and Helen Molesworth.
• 20 May 2021: “Addressing Sexuality, Gender, and the Decorative since the 1970s: Los Angeles-Based Artist Lari Pittman in Conversation with Art Historian David J. Getsy,” sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Paris
• 16 April 2021: Keynote: “How to Teach Manet’s Olympia after Transgender Studies,” Association of Art Historians Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom. View the recording here.
• 1 April 2021: “Enduring Out: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility in 1971,” Smithsonian Institution Fellows Seminar in American Art
• 18 March 2021: [interviewer] “Photography and Genderqueer History; Greg Day in Conversation with David J. Getsy on Photographing Stephen Varble in the 1970s,” Iceberg Projects
• 10 February 2021: Art History and Visual Culture Research Seminar Series, University of Exeter
• 1 February 2021: “Reduction as Expansion: The Queer Capacities of Abstract Art,” Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin. [recording online]
• 27 January 2021: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin

> For full list of appearances, see c.v.

Recordings of Past lectures and talks

Other recordings

Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz on Queer Theory and Art, Bad at Sports podcast, episode 91, 27 May 2007
Interview with Chicago Public Radio about seeing homosexuality in art, WBEZ Chicago, 12 September 2011
Roundtable with Kimberly Drew, Gordon Hall, and Juliana Huxtable, “Transgender in the Mainstream,” Art Basel Miami, 5 December 2015
”Transgender/Arts: A Roundtable on the Future of Transgender Cultural Production” with Julian B. Carter, micha cárdenas, Jules Rosskam, and Trish Salah, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 6 November 2013
Roundtable on the Art of Barbara Degenevieve, Bad at Sports podcast, episode 538, February 2016
”The Rodin Touch,” National Gallery of Art,” 20 March 2011

Vimeo Playlist: David Getsy Public Lectures and Dialogues
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