Outside the Box offers a roster of gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the course of a season. In this series, lecturers with diverse backgrounds and affinities will address the New Museum’s current exhibition “Jim Shaw: The End is Here” in forty-five- to sixty-minute presentations taking place exclusively in the Museum’s galleries. As a way to emphasize the Museum’s strong commitment to new art and new ideas, Outside the Box talks are open to the public and are intended to provide participants with multidisciplinary perspectives on New Museum exhibitions. To this end, lecturers will speak about the exhibition or themes emergent in Shaw’s works from the various positions they occupy—be they academic, personal, political, etc.—and will engage in rich investigations that will illuminate and probe the Museum’s current exhibition program.

Dan Nadel has authored books including The Collected Hairy Who Publications, 1966–1969; Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900–1969; and Gary Panter. He is the co-author of Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art and Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream, the co-editor of The Comics Journal, and has published essays and criticism in the Washington Post, Frieze, and Bookforum. As a curator, Nadel has mounted exhibitions including: “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art: 1960 to the Present” in Providence and New York; “Victor Moscoso: Psychedelic Drawings, 1967–1982” in New York; “Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973–1977″ in Los Angeles; and “Karl Wirsum: Drawings 1967–1970″ in New York.

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