Laura Cottingham

Laura Cottingham (born 1959) is an American art critic, curator and visual artist. Her most recent book is Fear Eats the Soul on Rainer Werner Fassbinder published by the British Film Institute in 2005. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Europe and in New York City, her best known videos being Not For Sale, 1998 and The Anita Pallenberg Story, 2000. She curated "NowHere," for the Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark in 1996 and "Vraiment Feminisme et art," for Le Magasin in Grenoble, France in 1997. She lives in New York City.

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Laura Cottingham is a graduate of Notre Dame Academy, in Park Hills, Kentucky and of the University of Chicago. In 1981-82 she was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Her activities have been primarily concentrated in Europe—including Austria, Germany, France, Spain, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden--where she has published, exhibited and lectured widely. Her work is concerned with reconsidering the meaning of art in light of the countercultural values of circa 1968. Her influences include Fluxus,......
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