Benjamin Weissman

Writer and visual artist, he is the author of Headless and Dear Dead Person and Other Stories. He has exhibited art both solo and in collaboration with Paul McCarthy and Jim Shaw. He has lectured on and written extensively about art, books, music, skiing, and pornography for M.I.T., MOCA, MOMA, Walker Art Center, and Artforum, Freeze, frieze, Index, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Nerve, Parkett, Powder, Salon, and Spin. He hosts “New American Writing” at UCLA Hammer Museum.