Headquartered in New York, AICA-USA's membership comprises over 500 critics, curators, scholars, and art historians working throughout the United States. AICA-USA supports arts writers through programs and membership that offers free access to museums across the globe.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
WORKSHOP SERIES
As part of the Art Critic Fellowship Program, AICA-USA presents the Workshop Series offering four lectures led by award-winning editors and writers to discuss the joys and concerns of writing and editing art criticism today. The lecture portion is open and free to the public. The Q&A session is offered to Art Critic Fellows.
Sky Goodden
On Coaxing Critical Courage and Taking Editorial Care
January 25, 2025
11:30AM ET
Virtual via Zoom
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Sky Goodden will draw 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?
Gabriel Martinez
February 8, 2025
11:30AM ET
Virtual via Zoom
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Kaelen Wilson Goldie
On Process
February 22, 2025
11:30AM ET
Virtual via Zoom
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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.
WATCH
18th AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture 2024:
Hilton Als | One Writer’s Beginnings: Thinking in Words and Pictures
Hilton Als delivering the 18th Annual Distinguished Critic Lecture. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
In case you missed the event, the recording of the event is available on view now.
Membership
AICA's membership card is recognized for entrance to museums around the world. Members are invited to attend the annual AICA International Congress, hosted each year by a different member nation, and the AICA-USA annual meeting.