We are pleased to host an online conversation between art historians Andrew Witt and Nicholas Gamso. They will discuss Lewis Baltz’s largely unseen experimental project The Deaths in Newport, as well as Andrew Witt’s new essay Lewis Baltz: True Crime.
Tune back onto this page on Sunday, June 14th at 12PM to watch the conversation.
Andrew Witt is an art historian and critic who writes on contemporary art. He is currently the 2025–2026 Periculum Foundation for Contemporary Art Discourse Fellow. His book “Lost Days, Endless Nights: Photography and Film from Los Angeles” was published in 2025 by the MIT Press. His writing has appeared in Camera Austria, History of Photography, Oxford Art Journal and Philosophy of Photography. He completed his PhD at University College London in 2017 and his MA at UCL in 2010. From 2018 to 2022, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Nicholas Gamso is an interdisciplinary scholar, writer, and critic whose work examines the intersection of contemporary art, urban space, film, and queer studies.