About Richard Meyer
Born 1966. Richard Meyer is an American university teacher, art historian, art critic, historian and journalist.
Richard Meyer is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University.
Prior to joining Stanford, he was an associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Outlaw Representation, a book about censorship and homosexuality in American art, and of What Was Contemporary Art?, and he is also a contributor to Artforum magazine. In 2013, he co-authored the book Art and Queer Culture, with Catherine Lord.
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Richard Meyer was born in 1966.
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Richard Meyer is a university teacher, art historian, art critic, historian and journalist.
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