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Wayne Koestenbaum on Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
For our Summer Sessions, Frieze has partnered with MUBI to present a series of artist conversations celebrating and debating contemporary classic films.
In the second of these will be an in-conversation with poet, critic, novelist, artist, performer Wayne Koestenbaum and frieze Editor-in-Chief Andrew Durbin discuss The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie directed by Luis Buñuel.
Frieze members can sign up here for an extended, three-month MUBI trial to watch the film ahead of the conversation, which will be broadcast live on Zoom.
Kindly note that The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is only available to view in the USA via MUBI.
If you’d like to receive a transcript of this live talk after the event, kindly contact events@frieze.com
Wayne Koestenbaum, a poet, critic, novelist, artist, performer—has published 21 books, including The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He has exhibited his paintings in solo shows at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (L.A.), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. His first piano/vocal record, Lounge Act, was released by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017; he has given musical performances at The Kitchen, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, The Artist’s Institute, The Poetry Project, and the Renaissance Society. Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired his literary archive in 2019. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Andrew Durbin is the editor of frieze magazine. He is the author of the novels MacArthur Park (2017) and Skyland (2020), both from Nightboat Books. He lives in London, UK