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LONDON NEW YORK SINGAPORE		Dr. Marcus Verhagen, Lecturer, MA Contemporary Art
FACULTY Megan Aldrich David Bellingham Elisabeth Bogdan Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe Derrick Chong Lis Darby Anthony Downey Jeremy Eckstein Anne Farrer Jane Gardiner Tony Godfrey Juliet Hacking Julia Hutt Gordon Lang Lisa Le Feuvre Henry Lydiate James Malpas Catherine Morel Anna Moszynska Richard Noble Raymond Notley Anders Pettersson Noel Riley Iain Robertson Andrea Schlieker Edgar Schmitz Bernard Vere Marcus Verhagen Gilda Williams Faculty home		Since earning his PhD in art history from the University of California at Berkeley, Marcus has taught at universities in both the States (University of California at Berkeley, Reed College) and Britain (Manchester University). Initially specialising in French art of the nineteenth century, he concentrated on the response of the avant-garde to the rise of mass culture, publishing articles on the topic in academic journals and anthologies. Some ten years ago he started to work freelance, the focus of his work shifting at that point to the art of the present. Though he still occasionally writes on nineteenth-century French art, his current research revolves mostly around globalisation and its effects on contemporary art. He has recently published articles on the rise of the biennial, on travel and migration as recurrent concerns in contemporary art and on the global city as it described and understood by artists. He is also interested in the afterlife of modernist utopianism, in notions of time and duration in contemporary art, and in art that concerns itself with gratuity, dysfunction and failure. He has published in periodicals such as Representations, Third Text and New Left Review. He has also contributed essays, reviews and interviews to magazines such as Art Monthly, Modern Painters, frieze and Art Review, while occasionally writing catalogue essays. In recent years he has worked as a tutor at a number of art colleges, including Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, teaching courses on art history and cultural theory. A selection of recent publications: “The Nomad and the Altermodern,” Third Text, November 2009, pp.803-812 “Pleasure & Pain”, interview with Omer Fast, Art Monthly, October 2009, pp. 1-4 “Wasted Effort”, Art Monthly, June 2009, pp.13-16 “Fast Time, Slow Time”, Slow Movement oder: Das Halbe und das Ganze, Kunsthalle Bern, 2009, pp.60-76 “Elmgreen & Dragset; Inconvenient Truths”, Art Review, October 2008, pp.74-81 “Conceptual Perspex,” New Left Review, 46, July/Aug. 2007, pp.154-160 (reprinted in Monika Szeweczyk ed., Meaning Liam Gillick, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, 2009, pp.46-57) “On Looking Back through Sheets of Glass”, Nick Crowe; Commemorative Glass, Manchester Cornerhouse, 2007, pp.82-85 “Nomadism”, Art Monthly, Oct. 2006, pp.7-10 “Trash Talking”, Modern Painters, Feb. 2006, pp.66-69 “Bohemia in Doubt,” in Jeannene Przyblyski and Vanessa Schwartz eds., The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader, Routledge, New York and London, 2004, pp.327-337

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