Gregory Battcock

[6] Battcock attended Michigan State University, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and Hunter College.

He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 1978 with a dissertation titled Constructivism and Minimal Art: Some Aesthetic, Theoretical and Critical Correlations.

In the late 1960s and early-’70s, Battcock contributed columns on art and life to tabloids such as Gay and the New York Review of Sex.

In 1977 he co-published the tabloid Trylon & Perisphere with Ron Whyte that included satiricart criticism and soft-core eroticism.

[4] He appeared in the Andy Warhol films Eating Too Fast, Horse, and Batman Dracula.