Master Class in Art Writing with American writer and art critic Barry Schwabsky
Monday, September 30 10 a.m. to noon
at aka artist-run, 424 20th St. West
Free Admission
Art critic Barry Schwabsky will discuss the process of putting together the collection of essays for his upcoming book, Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice. This will be followed by an informal Q and A on art writing.
Barry Schwabsky is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the art critic for The Nation and his essays have appeared in Flash Art, Artforum, the London Review of Books and Art in America. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting and several volumes of poetry, the most recent being Book Left Open in the Rain.
Refreshments provided.
RSVP to tgronsdahl@mendel.ca by September 23.
This is a partnership between the Mendel Art Gallery and aka artist-run and in conjunction with the exhibition Rewilding Modernity.
