Rachel Haidu

University of Rochester

July–August 2012

Rachel Haidu is an historian and critic of modern and contemporary art with particular interest in Western and Eastern Europe and Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976 (2010) and numerous essays, most recently on the works of James Coleman, Yvonne Rainer, Gerhard Richter, and Sol LeWitt. Her current project, Transmission, proposes new models of artistic “influence” with particular attention to historiographic concerns and the influx of performance and technologies of reproduction in contemporary art.