Scott Rothkopf at the Quick February 9th!

Monday, February 9th Scott Rothkopf joins the Quick with the Philip I. Eliasoph Open VISIONS Forum. Fairfield University and Prep Faculty and Staff enjoy one free ticket to each event. Additional discounts are available for guest tickets. Fairfield University students can enjoy free tickets when faculty send their class list to the Quick Center Box Office at quickboxoffice@fairfield.edu.

As the Fairfield University Art Museum presents For Which it Stands…, Rothkopf will address the history of American art. He will be joined in conversation by Henry Adams, the Ruth Couter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University.  

Educated at Harvard, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in the history of art and architecture, Rothkopf began his curatorial career at the Harvard University Art Museums, where he served as a guest curator of exhibitions devoted to the work of Mel Bochner (2002) and Pierre Huyghe (2004). In 2001, he began publishing reviews and feature articles for Artforum International, where he served as Senior Editor from 2004–2009.  

Since coming to the Whitney, he has curated and co-curated more than a dozen exhibitions, including Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror (2021–22), Nick Mauss: Transmissions (2018), Laura Owens (2017), Open Plan: Andrea Fraser (2016), Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection (2016), Virginia Overton: Sculpture Gardens (2016), Mary Heilmann: Sunset (2015), Jeff Koons: A Retrospective (2014), Sinister Pop (2012–13), Wade Guyton OS (2012–13), Glenn Ligon: AMERICA (2011), and Singular Visions (2010).  

Beyond the Whitney, Rothkopf has published widely on the work of contemporary artists and has served as editor of Yourself in the World (2011), a volume of the collected writings and interviews of Glenn Ligon. He has been a guest critic, lecturer, and panelist at numerous institutions, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Harvard University, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Canada, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Stanford University, and the Yale School of Art. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.  

Presented with the Fairfield University Art Museum, Art History and Visual Culture Program, and the Office of the President, Arts & Culture