Monday, December 14, 2022
6:30 - 8PM EDT
In-person and livestreamed
The 8th Floor
17 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
AICA-USA is pleased to announce that arts journalist Siddhartha Mitter will deliver “Moving the Center” as the sixteenth annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
The AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School is an annual event during which an exemplary writer addresses seminal issues in contemporary art criticism. Previous lecturers have been Legacy Russell, Carolina A,. Miranda, Courtney J. Martin, Aruna D’Souza, Paul Chaat Smith, Negar Azimi, Naomi Beckwith, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Lucy Lippard, Michelle Kuo, Peter Schjeldahl, Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith, Linda Nochlin, and Michael Brenson. Videos of previous lectures can be found here.
Siddhartha Mitter contributes primarily to The New York Times, for whom he writes profiles, reported features and criticism on contemporary art. He is most concerned with art-making and culture work as they reflect, negotiate, imagine and expand civic possibility. He works locally, nationally and internationally, often in Africa. He was a regular in the Village Voice in its swan-song years, and has contributed to many other publications within and outside the art field. Previously he was the culture reporter at WNYC New York Public Radio, and a writer on jazz and other music for the Boston Globe. Siddhartha’s training was in the social sciences, including graduate work in the political economy of development. His roots are in Boston, Calcutta, and Paris, and he has lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, since 2007.
This event is free and open to the public.
AICA supports art writers around the world through public programs and membership that includes free access to museums across the globe. Since its formation in 1950, AICA has been committed to elevating the values of art criticism as a discipline, and acting on behalf of the physical and moral defense of works of art.
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AICA supports arts writers around the world through public programs and membership that offers free access to museums across the globe. AICA-USA represents the largest national section of AICA International with over 450 distinguished critics, curators, scholars, and art historians working throughout the United States. As part of the international organization, we benefit from a global reach in presence. AICA-USA is intent on international communication, elevating the values of art criticism as a discipline, and acting on behalf of the physical and moral defense of works of art.
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.
Every fall, in cooperation with the New School's Vera List Center for Art and Politics, AICA-USA presents a Distinguished Critic Lecture.
Organized in collaboration with CUE Art Foundation, this program matches emerging critics with experienced AICA-USA members who guide them through the process of writing a catalogue essay.
A partnership between The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and AICA-USA that gives art writers the opportunity to strengthen their work through one-on-one consultations with leading art critics.