Annie Cohen Solal on Charlie Rose, Sept. 15, 2010

Charlie Rose interviews Annie Cohen Solal, French author who will be visiting the University Art Museum this coming Tuesday, October 12, about her new biography of her friend Leo Castelli, the New York art dealer who helped to create and shape the Pop and Minimalist movements in American art.

View the interview here.

Rose previously interviewed Cohen Solal in 2001 about Painting American, her book on the rise of American art in New York City, and how it came to displace Paris as the center of the art world. Cohen Solal conducted much of her research for that book as cultural attache of the French Embassy under the tutelage of Leo Castelli.

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Castelli Book Makes Second Cut for Prix Femina

Annie Cohen-Solal's new biography of New York art dealer Leo Castelli has made the second cut for the Prix Femina, a prestigious French prize honoring literature written by women. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 3rd.

Cohen-Solal will visit UAlbany, October 12 (Tuesday) at 7PM [NOTE EARLY START TIME]. The event is in the University Art Museum, Fine Arts Building, Uptown Campus and is cosponsored by the Art Museum.

BTW: That's Andy Warhol's "Leo Castelli 1975" on the right.

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