6:30 p.m.

Roberta Smith will be speaking in the third of the AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lectures at The New School, an annual event addressing current issues in the world of art criticism. Her lecture will present one writer's view of the craft, process and usage of art criticism, and the rising challenges of crisis-management and relevance-maintenance.

Smith is the acclaimed senior art critic for the New York Times. An alumna of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Paula Cooper Gallery before becoming a professional art critic in the 1970s, contributing to Artforum and serving as a senior editor for Art in America. In 1981 she became art critic for the Village Voice, before moving to the New York Times in 1986. In 2003, the College Art Association honored Smith with the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.

AICA was founded in the wake of World War II to protect the openness of a global discourse in the arts. There are now chapters in 64 countries currently promoting art criticism and its insights into contemporary culture.

Presented by The International Association of Art Critics (AICA: Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street

Admission:

$8, free for all students, as well as AICA members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m. The box office opens the first day of classes and closes after the last paid event of each semester. Reservations and inquiries can be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488

For events scheduled during the summer term, the box office will open one hour before each event. During this period only, reservations can be made using the above contact information.

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Phone: (212) 229-2436
Email:

vlc@newschool.edu

For more information please contact the Vera List Center at (212) 229-2436 or at vlc@newschool.edu.