
Michael Taussig dropped in to the Bases of Criticism I foundation seminar taught by David Levi Strauss on September 28, 2011, to discuss his essay “Walter Benjamin’s Grave.”
A version of the talk Ann Lauterbach gave in the Art Criticism & Writing Lecture Series on February 11, 2010, “The Given & the Chosen,” has just been published as a chapbook by Omnidawn, in Richmond, California. Ann is currently teaching a seminar in the program called “The Work of Art in the Age of Information.”
Tuesday October 4th, 2011 7pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Is it possible to define a cogent code of ethics in art writing? In this panel discussion, four young contemporary art writers, Adam Kleinman, Quinn Latimer, Patricia Milder and Matthew Schum will investigate the problem of ethics in relation to their own work and to criticism writ large.

132 West 21st Street, 7th Floor
(between 6th and 7th Avenues) in New York City
The MFA program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts will host an Open House and Graduate Information Session on Saturday, October 22, 2011, from 2-4 pm, at its facilities on West 21st Street in Chelsea.
Tuesday October 4th, 2011 7pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Is it possible to define a cogent code of ethics in art writing? In this panel discussion, four young contemporary art writers, Adam Kleinman, Quinn Latimer, Patricia Milder and Matthew Schum will investigate the problem of ethics in relation to their own work and to criticism writ large.
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David Levi Strauss recent contribution to the Brooklyn Rail looks at Joseph Beuys first visit to the United States and the series of lectures and discussions—in New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis—under the collective title “Energy Plan for the Western Man.”

After returning from London where he opened his first solo show, Everything Leads to Another, at Hauser and Wirth (May 20 – July 30), Matthew Day Jackson talked about his work, creative process, and drag racing plans with Charles Schultz for the Brooklyn Rail.

Raphael Rubinstein’s latest review for Art in America looks that the exhibit Sigmar Polke: Photoworks 1964-2000 at Leo Koenig in New York.

For Art in America, Nancy Princenthal reviews Francis Alÿs installation at MoMA and PS1.