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Fear and Money

A Discussion of Isabelle Graw’s New Book with Graw, Adam Pendleton and Violaine Huisman

Monday, May 12
6:30 – 8 PM EDT
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Fear and Money Book Launch
Monday, May 12
6:30 – 8 PM EDT
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Fear and Money, art historian Isabelle Graw's new book published by Sternberg Press, delves into the anatomy of our anxieties amid the emergence of an unpredictable new world order.

This live event will bring Graw, writer and curator Violaine Huisman, and artist Adam Pendleton together for a conversation that examines our money-related fears while foregrounding their social nature.

Isabelle Graw

Isabelle Graw is an Art Historian and writer, she is the publisher of the magazine Texte zur Kunst and Professor of Art History/Art Theory at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. Her latest publications include: On The Benefits of Friendship (2022) and Fear and Money (2025).

Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton is a central figure among a cross-generational group of painters redefining the medium as it relates to process and abstraction. In 2024, he was honored with the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

His visually distinct and conceptually rigorous paintings begin on paper with drips, splatters, sprays, geometric shapes, words and phrases, and inky fragments reminiscent of broken letters. These compositions are photographed and then layered using a screen-printing process, purposefully blurring the distinctions between the acts of painting, drawing, and photography. An encounter with any single work, typically composed of two colors on black gessoed grounds, brings forth the immediacy of gestural abstraction, the considered execution of minimal and conceptual art, and the playfulness of concrete poetry.

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Violaine Huisman

Violaine Huisman is a writer, translator and curator born in Paris and based in New York for over twenty years. Her debut novel The Book of Mother (originally published in French as Fugitive parce que reine) was longlisted for a Booker Prize. Her translations into French include Ben Lerner's Hatred of Poetry and The Polish Rider, and Maggie Nelson's On Freedom. She is a regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst. She currently serves as Artistic Director of L'Alliance New York, and curates L'Alliance NY's multidisciplinary Crossing the Line festival. Her most recent novel, Les Monuments de Paris, was published by Gallimard in France and is forthcoming from Penguin Press in spring 2026.