Organizing Get in the Game - A Curator’s View

Seph Rodney discusses in practical terms how a huge exhibition such as Get in the Game (the largest show that SF MoMA has put together) gets organized and mounted. He will demystify how artists get selected and get invited to participate in this kind of large-scale show.

On Coaxing Critical Courage and Taking Editorial Care

Sky Goodden draws on over a decade of experience as a publisher, editor, and critic, to discuss the tenets of writer-led art publishing and editorial care. What makes editing collaborative? What are the mainstays of coaxing originality, clarity, and meaning-making from a text? How do we protect critical courage? And when working with writers from regions that are too often left out of contemporary art conversations, what should we be looking out for, and providing?

Against Received Art Internet English

“Critics must locate art in the most precise sense of the sense of place. There must be present the reasons, like shadows, around the art. Contrasts and comparisons must be made in the artist’s development and in relation to other art. Criticism is proportion. The signals of art criticism are the signs of art.” Quote by A. L. Stubbs at an AICA Member meeting, 1979. Discussing three pieces of criticism focusing on music, film, and writing, this lecture will focus on the signals the morphing “Art English” prevalent in criticism published mainly on the internet and the signs of art this criticism points to.

On Process

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie will talk about process and will ask the fellows to work through some questions with her about pitching, filing, and fact-checking; about developing relationships with editors and publishers; about being a specialist versus a generalist and writing for readers at home versus abroad. She will talk about ethics, about the responsibilities critics have toward artists and audiences, and about being difficult, namely, knowing when, how, and/or why a long-standing collaboration should end.