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Arsenic and no Lace
Greg de Cuir Jr. 

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2021

Greg de Cuir Jr. is an independent curator, film scholar, author, and longtime companion of Everson. For the exhibition Recover, de Cuir Jr. has written a text titled Arsenic and no Lace, which describes his first encounter with Kevin Jerome Everson and provides insight into Everson’s masterpiece Sugarcoated Arsenic (2014).


Greg de Cuir Jr. (*Los Angeles, lives in Belgrad) is an independent curator, writer and translator. He has been organizing the screening series Avant-Noir, which presents contemporary film and video work by artists concerned with visual representations of black culture in its various complex forms. His programs were shown in institutions and various festivals such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; ICA, London; National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington DC; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Los Angeles Filmforum; Locarno Film Festival; Flaherty Film Seminar, New York; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad; Alternative Film Video, Belgrade and others. His writing has been published in Cineaste, Millennium Film Journal, Jump Cut, among others.