🚀 go-pugleaf

 Brought to you as a service of the Duke University News Service,
Box 90563, Durham, NC 27708-0563, Phone: (919) 684-2823, Fax: (919)
                        684-5760/681-7334.

    This and other stories and information can be found on Duke
  University's gopher server DIABLO.  Point your gopher client to
                         DIABLO.DUKE.EDU.

===================================================================

For immediate release                            Contact: Virginia Boyd
Oct. 20, 1994                                    (919) 681-8065
                                                 BoydV@mail01.adm.duke.edu


CONTROVERSIAL ARTIST KAREN FINLEY TO DISCUSS WORK
AT DUKE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, MONDAY, OCT. 24


       DURHAM, N.C. -- Artist, author and playwright Karen Finley
will discuss the significance of her work Monday, Oct. 24, at 7
p.m. in the north gallery of the Duke University Museum of Art.
       Finley, a visual and performance artist, has been publicly
praised and criticized for her confrontational performance pieces
that explicitly address socially taboo subjects including sexual
perversity, personal suffering and violence.
       Besides performing, Finley has written and directed plays as
well as authored two books, "Enough is Enough," a humorous self-
help book of weekly meditations for living dysfunctionally; and
"Shock Treatment," a collection of prose and poetry.
       The Monday evening talk is sponsored by the Duke art museum
and the Institute of the Arts at Duke University.  Admission is
free.
                               ###