Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Presents On Process

Workshop Series
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February 22, 2025, 11:30AM ET
Virtual Event

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.

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. 

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a journalist and critic and the author of Etel Adnan (2018), on the paintings of the Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan, and Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War (2022), about the work of Amar Kanwar, Teresa Margolles, and the anonymous filmmakers’ collective Abounaddara. Wilson-Goldie currently writes for 4Columns, Aperture, e-flux Criticism, and Mousse, among other publications, and her recent essays consider the work of artists such as Myriam Boulos, Huguette Caland, Ipek Duben, and Mounira Solh. In 2022, Wilson-Goldie was a practitioner-in-residence at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. She received a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Program, in 2013, and a fellowship from the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program, in 2007. Wilson-Goldie was a lowly intern for The Village Voice, worked as a reporter and editor for Beirut’s now-defunct English-language newspaper The Daily Star, and spent many years as a contributing editor for Bidoun. She is a PhD candidate in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University (SUNY Stony Brook), where her research focuses on modernism, feminism, and decolonization in the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the work of groundbreaking but understudied women artists and the importance of cities such as Beirut, Cairo, and Algiers as major centers of art, culture, and political thought.

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