Distinguished Critic Lecture Series

Distinguished Critic Lecture Series

Launched in 2007 and presented in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, AICA-USA's Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School is an annual event during which an exemplary writer addresses seminal issues in contemporary art criticism.

Past Distinguished Critics

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Hilton Als

2024
One Writer’s Beginnings: Thinking in Words and Pictures

Membership Manager 9/18/23 Membership Manager 9/18/23

Valerie Cassel Oliver

2023
Black Ontology: The Subversive Beauty of Soul

Membership Manager 9/26/22 Membership Manager 9/26/22

Siddhartha Mitter

2022
Moving the Center

Membership Manager 10/18/21 Membership Manager 10/18/21

Legacy Russell

2021
On Footnotes

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Carolina Miranda

2020
Going Local

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Courtney J. Martin

2019
In the Context of Criticism

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Aruna D'Souza

2018
Writing in the Reparative Mode

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Paul Chaat Smith

2017
Thirteen Months in America

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Negar Azimi

2016
Nice One: The Wages of Tokenism

Membership Manager 10/1/15 Membership Manager 10/1/15

Naomi Beckwith

2015
Curating the Errant Form

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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

2014
To Make Committed Exhibitions

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Lucy Lippard

2013
Changing: On Not Being an Art “Critic”

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Michelle Kuo

2012
The Critic as Outsider

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Peter Schjeldahl

2011
The Critic as Artist, in 2011: Updating Oscar Wilde

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Holland Cotter

2010
Art Critic, So What?

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Roberta Smith

2009
Criticism: A Life Sentence

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Linda Nochlin

2008
Art Criticism and Its Enemies

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