Join us for a special lecture, “The Real in Caravaggio’s Realism,” by Art Historian and Critic Donald Kuspit, Wednesday, September 29, 6 pm.
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| Donald Kuspit critiques 2007-2008 Fellow Ali Banisadr‘s painting. |
One of the contemporary art world’s most important voices, Donald Kuspit joins Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Will Cotton and Steven Assael as the Academy’s newest Senior Critic. Also a renowned writer and teacher, an essay by Mr. Kuspit accompanied the 2010 Thesis Exhibition as a compelling declaration of the importance of the New York Academy of Art’s mission.
All lectures are free and open to the public, so join us!
Next up: Alexi Worth, Tuesday, October 5
The NYAA Library has these resources available exclusively for NYAA students.
- Books by Donald Kuspit, including The Dialectic of Decadence: Between Advance and Decline in Art; The End of Art; Indosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde; The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century; Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries.
- Electronic access to Kuspit articles in ArtForum International, including reviews, essays, and features.
- 195 images in ArtStor, collected in the Caravaggio image group for easy retrieval.