艺览天下 | Curator Walkthrough 与策展人看展

本期艺览天下的主题为：与策展人看展

Inducted twice into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, initially for The Velvet Underground and posthumously for his solo career, Lou Reed was a rock poet who was as much applauded for his sonic innovations as his embodiment of the New York cool.

The Velvet Underground, Nico, Andy Warhol

Led by curator Kevin Parks of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, this episode of peakaboo tells the story of Lou Reed through the exhibition at the institution that is now the custodian of Lou Reed’s archive.

Born on Long Island, New York in 1942 to the family of an accountant,Reed was an aficionado of music and poetry. Though he long intended to be arockstar, Reed was unaffected by the ostentatious lifestyle that theromanticization of this art form harbors on. When Andy Warhol’s reign budded inNew York City in the mid-1960s, he designated the freshly minted rock band, TheVelvet Underground to be The Factory’s house band. As the band’s frontman, LouReed’s renegade attitude was soon accentuated under the radical limelight. 

Theband’s music fell flat to the market of its time, an ironic story arc that madethe band more revered for their noisy sonic innovations, injections of taboosubjects into a coddled industry that was dominated by feel-good tunes of utopias, and as the voice for disenfranchised youths whose only certainties were to break away In contrast to mixing stark electric chords with deep strains of drones, Reed had a resolutely uncomplicated style when it comes to the lyrics. Nothing was more appealing to Reed than quotidian nuances in New York City; for him, heroes were not famed faces printed in newspapers and aired on TV, but the everyday performer that one sees on a street corner or the fleeting fallen soul on Coney Island.

Fittingly plucked from Lou Reed’s lyrics as the exhibition’s title, “Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars,” this walkthrough unravels the intricate layers of Reed’s life in question. From personal artifacts to unreleased demo tapes, we begin to experience the life of someone whose touches in New York revolutionized music as the world knew it.

The entire Lou Reed archive is now accessible to the public on the third floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

The entire Lou Reed archive is now accessible to the public on the third floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

与主持人一起深入了解文化产业的幕后。每一期节目以中英双语走入视觉和表演艺术家、音乐家、影业、政策制定者、艺管、藏家的世界。

这个频道是一个双向通道一一促进和支持各个国家的文化交流以深固创造者与广大观众的对话。

A personal look at the behind-the-scenes of the creative industry with the host. The bilingual series features guests from the visual and performing arts, music, film, arts administrators, collectors and policy makers. 

The channel is a two-way portal that promotes cultural exchanges between the Asian and global communities, as well as between creators and audiences at large.

Lulu Fong 的职业生涯核心是善用她在东西方的个人经验不断推广艺术独特的能力。 

2020年毕业于哥伦比亚大学艺术管理研究生，她曾为著名的国际画廊、豪瑟沃斯（纽约）、里森画廊（上海）和Miguel Abreu画廊（纽约）工作。

在国内的北京“艺术新闻”上海的“外滩美术馆”、“民生美术馆”。参加了苏富比艺术学院驻东京的学习。 

Fong曾在美国著名机构的实习和艺术核心工作的经验能更好的为东、西方的艺术家和艺术观众们服务。

At the core of Lulu Fong’s career is a unique ability to utilize her personal transatlantic experiences in her continuous promotion of the arts. 

Fong received her M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University in 2020 and worked extensively for leading international galleries Hauser & Wirth (New York), Lisson Gallery (Shanghai) and Miguel Abreu Gallery (New York). 

With her academic training and professional experience unfolding at the heart of the art industry, Lulu Fong offers a particular standpoint that is needed to bridge gaps of Asian representation in both the creatives side and the audience of arts.

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撰稿：Lulu

编辑：Xiangning Liu