Saturday, March 18, 4:30-6pm:

Linda Cunningham will be in conversation with Antonio Sergio Bessa, Chief Curator emeritus at The Bronx Museum.

Antonio Sergio Bessa is the chief curator emeritus at the Bronx Museum, which he joined in 2003. A scholar of concrete poetry, he has organized several critically acclaimed exhibitions on themes related to text-based art, and his essays on concrete poetry have been published in several anthologies, journals, and websites including. He is the author of Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing, and editor of Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos (in collaboration with Odile Cisneros), and Mary Ellen Solt: Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry. Bessa organized several exhibitions at the Bronx Museum including Joan Semmel: A Lucid Eye (2013), Paulo Bruscky: Art is our Last Hope (2013), Martin Wong: Human Instamatic (2015), Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect (2017), The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop (2019). As an educator, he worked as a contractual instructor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1998 through 2004; led a seminar on artists' writings at the School of Visual Arts (2001-2004); and taught Museum Education Issues at Columbia University’s Teachers College from 2006 to 2016. Bessa was a visiting faculty member in the Bennington College Museum Fellows Term Program for Spring 2022.

Click here to read more about Linda Cunningham's Environmental Memorial (February 25 - March 26, 2023).