EventsThe New Social Environment#935

Steve DiBenedetto: Uncertainty Takes a Holiday

Featuring DiBenedetto and Dan Nadel, with James Sherry

Monday, November 6, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Steve DiBenedetto joins Rail contributor Dan Nadel for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by James Sherry.

In this Talk

Visit Steve DiBenedetto: Uncertainty Takes a Holiday, on view at David Nolan Gallery, New York through December 9, 2023 →

Steve DiBenedetto

Steve DiBenedetto earned his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1980. He has received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Fellowship Award. DiBenedetto has taught at numerous institutions including Cooper Union, Columbia University, and The School of Visual Arts. DiBenedetto’s work has been featured in numerous institutional exhibitions all over the world, including Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; MassArt, Boston, MA; Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany, among others. His work is included in numerous museum collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, as well as numerous private collections.

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Dan Nadel

Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Dan Nadel is a writer and curator. He is Curator-at-Large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. His biography of Robert Crumb, Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, was published by Scribner in April 2025. A frequent writer on art and cartooning for books and magazines internationally, Nadel most recently has written about Dana Schutz, Carroll Dunham, and KAWS. Nadel has curated exhibitions for institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨