in new discussion series
Three leading art critics will be featured in a series of informal discussions with students and others being sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery and the School of Art.
All three talks, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the Department of Painting at the School of Art, 1156 Chapel St. The schedule and speakers are:
Friday, Feb. 6, at 5 p.m. -- Katy Siegel, assistant professor of art history at Hunter College, City University of New York, a contributing editor at Artforum, and author of numerous essays and articles on contemporary art.
Thursday, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. -- Barry Schwabsky, author of "The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art" and "Opera: Poems 1981-2002," as well as the main text of "Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting." Schwabsky has taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Yale University, New York University, the School of Visual Arts in New York and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Formerly editor of Arts Magazine and managing editor of Flash Art, he now co-edits the international reviews section of Artforum.
Tuesday, March 2, at 5 p.m. -- Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for The New Yorker since 1998, and previously art critic at The Village Voice. Before that he was a columnist for Seven Days and wrote for The New York Times. His many honors include the Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinguished art criticism and a Guggenheim Foundation grant. He is the author of "The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings 1987-1990" and other collections. Schjeldahl teaches a senior seminar at Harvard University.
For more information about the series, call Jaime Ursic at (203) 436-1559.
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