Matthew James Holman In Conversation With Artist Louise Giovanelli

Matthew James Holman In Conversation With Artist Louise Giovanelli 

Talk and Book Signing - Wednesday 5th November 

Join Matthew and Louise at UNITOM on Wednesday 5th November for a special evening of discussion on painting, friendship, and curation. They’ll be discussing Matthew's recent book Frank O’Hara and MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator (Bloomsbury), Louise’s recent and current exhibitions at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria (2025) and Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2024-25), as well as their work with the Apollo Painting School in Manchester, which is fast becoming one of the most dynamic and exciting art schools in the UK.

·       Wednesday 5th November 

·       Doors 5:30pm

·       Start 6:00pm

·       UNITOM, 1A Stevenson Square, Manchester M1 1DN

·       Book Signing will be taking place after the talk

·       Limited tickets

About the Book:

Frank O’Hara and MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator

This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad. Frank O’Hara & MoMA focuses on his travelling exhibitions for MoMA's International Program, a vehicle for soft power during the fraught years of the cultural Cold War, exposing him to new art, artists, and cities, while developing important transnational networks far from New York, from Madrid to Venice, Zagreb to Otterlo.

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Matthew James Holman (b. 1991, Sheffield) is a writer and academic, based in London, UK. After completing a PhD in American cultural history at University College London, he is now Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Hertfordshire and lectures regularly at The Courtauld. Matthew has held research or postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University, the Smithsonian, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin. He has contributed many essays for artist monographs and books (including on Sir Christopher Le Brun, Daniel Crews-Chubb, and the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, which features Louise’s Auto-da-fé on the cover). Matthew writes regularly for The Art Newspaper, Burlington Contemporary, Frieze, and The Times Literary Supplement. Frank O'Hara and MoMA is his first full-length book.

Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London) lives and works in Manchester, UK. She studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt (2018–20) under the tutelage of Amy Sillman, having received her BA from the Manchester School of Art, UK, in 2015. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria (2025); Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2024-25); He Art Museum, Foshan, China (2024); Moon Grove, Manchester, UK (2023); Manchester Art Gallery, UK (2019); Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, UK (2019); Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK (2018); The Grundy Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2016). Giovanelli’s work has been featured in group exhibitions that include FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023); Hayward Gallery, London (2021); AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (2021); and The Art House, Worcester, UK (2019).