Dasha Shenkman Lecture In Contemporary Art Series

Please mark your calendars and plan to come to Guelph to listen to the remarkable art critic, writer, and film maker, Chris Kraus. Kraus has been described as “one of our smartest and original writers on contemporary art and culture” by Holland Cotter of the New York Times, and her work as “an uncannily coherent landscape, a kind of hyperintellectual, hypersexual, digital-era Yoknapatawpha that moves back and forth across the Atlantic, across the Mexican border, across the Soviet bloc” by Leslie Jamison in the New Yorker. In 2008, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art journalism from the College Art Association, the jury of which stated: “Regardless of genre or medium, Kraus’s works exemplify honesty, wit, and plot. She transforms art writing’s possibilities by rescuing theories of privilege, gossip, and feminism from their occasional tumbles into the lackluster. Never one to hold her tongue, Kraus helps other women speak with equal force.”

 

 

Megan Arnold 

Alicia Barbieri 

sophia bartholomew 

Yan Wen Chang 

Rihab Essayh 

Julien Fisher 

Samuelle Grande

Meg Ross 

Chelsea Ryan 

Michael Thompson 

Kelly Uyeda 

Thomas Weir 

 

Please plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture: 3:00-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m.