Deborah Solomon talks with David Cohen about his work
New York Studio School, Wednesday, September 26
recording and stills: Michael Dotolo / defenestrated.org
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In 1999 David Cohen initiated a series of dialogues at the New York Studio School with leading American art writers. The Craft of Criticism was launched with an interview with Peter Schjeldahl, then recently appointed art critic for New Yorker magazine. Eight years and twenty seven conversations later, Cohen's last guest in the series was chief art critic of the New York Times, Michael Kimmelman.
In a coda to this run of high powered fireside chats with some of the leading minds in visual arts journalism and scholarship, the tables turned as Cohen himself was the guest of renowned critic and biographer Deborah Solomon who questioned him about his own work as a critic. The evening is introduced by Christina Kee of the New York Studio School.
Deborah Solomon writes the "Questions For" column for The New York Times Magazine. Formerly Chief Art Critic of the Wall Street Journal, she is the author of “Jackson Pollock: A Biography” (1987), "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Art of Joseph Cornell" (2004) and a forthcoming biography of Norman Rockwell.
David Cohen is art critic and contributing editor at the New York Sun, editor and publisher of artcritical.com, and gallery director at the New York Studio School. He moderates the Review Panel at the National Academy Museum, and is the author of “Alex Katz Collages: A catalogue raisonné” (2005)
The Craft of Criticism: Conclusion was part of The New York Studio School Fall 2007 Lecture Series which will also include talks by Gregory Botts, John Newman, Deborah Rosenthal, Kim Sloane, Siri Hustvedt, Mariët Westermann, Joe Fyfe and Sean Scully, among others, and a panel moderated by Karen Wilkin. For further details, click here
