Café des Artistes 12

Dr James Boaden and Lucy Askew hosted a discussion on Roy Lichtenstein on 27 April 2015, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One.

View of audience at Café des Artistes number 12 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

James Boaden is a lecturer at the University of York.

James Boaden discusses Roy Lichtenstein at Café des Artistes number 12.

He completed his PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where his thesis used newly available archival material to examine the work of the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and his relationship with a diverse range of artists between 1950 and 1965.

Lucy Askew at Café des Artistes number 12 discussing Roy Lichtenstein.

James is currently revising his PhD thesis into a book length study examining the filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s collaborations with American artists. James has also written a number of reviews for The Burlington Magazine, Contemporary Theatre Review, CAA Reviews, and Art History as well as contributing to the magazine Little Joe and the Lux: Artists' Moving Image blog as their 2013 writer in residence.

Lucy Askew has been Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh since 2011 where she has been responsible for exhibitions and displays devoted to the work of Edvard Munch, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Lawler and Roy Lichtenstein, and co-curator and project manager for the large-scale group exhibitions From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection and GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland.