Titled “ ‘No Direction Home’: George Tooker, Deviance, and Visibility in 20th-Century America,” the talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Emerson Auditorium.  Free and open to the public.

Tooker’s Waiting Room II (1982) (Ed. note- It is impossible to find a picture of this painting online), is an extraordinarily early indictment of the Reagan administration’s neglect of both the homeless population and those suffering from HIV/AIDS, according to Hauser. Artists and collectives like Krzysztof Wodiczko and Gran Fury have enjoyed critical success for their projects associated with homelessness and those living with the stigma caused by HIV/AIDS, however they began their projects in the late 1980s.  Hauser argues that Tooker’s sensitivity to both marginalized populations explains this work’s prescient condemnation of Reagan-era negligence. <via Events>