Remake art history with New York Times critic Roberta Smith on 'Guests and Gusto'
For more than four decades, award-winning New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has recorded contemporary art history in cultural critiques of work by transformative artists, including Donald Judd and Elizabeth Murray. In this Guests and Gusto, Smith answers all your questions about art criticism — from the power and responsibility of expressing your opinion, to writing and receiving difficult critiques, to the etiquette of communicating in the art world.
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. Follow @robertasmithnyt.
About 'Guests and Gusto'
Tune in to Guests and Gusto, the SCAD series you want with the people you need to know. All quarter long, Zoom in on exclusive virtual hang-outs, real-time talks, and cool digital content with the creators and innovators remaking culture — from big celebs to top pros to boss alumni.
The Roberta Smith Guests and Gusto event is open to the public.
Register below to tune in. Students who stay through the whole event will be entered to win a grand prize at the end of spring quarter. For more information, email [email protected].
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