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Talk with New York Times Art Critic Roberta Smith
May 19, 2020 | Leave a Comment
For more than four decades, award-winning New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has covered work by transformative artists, including Donald Judd and Elizabeth Murray. In this Guests and Gusto presentation, Smith answers all your questions about art criticism — from the power and responsibility of expressing your opinion, to writing and receiving criticism.
About Roberta Smith
Roberta Smith has written art criticism for The New York Times since 1986 and became co-chief art critic in 2004. In the 1970s, she wrote for Artforum, Art in America, and Arts Magazine, and she was art critic for the Village Voice from 1981 to 1985. Smith contributed to the Donald Judd Catalogue Raisonné and has also written essays for museum catalogs on Judd, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, Jennifer Bartlett, and Cy Twombly. She received art criticism grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1975 and 1980 and, in 2003, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association. In 2019, Smith was honored with the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.
Thursday, May 21
5:00pm EDT