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Faculty and Guest Speakers

David Levi Strauss, chair

Writer, scholar, critic
Education: BA, Goddard College, with additional work at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York; graduate work in the Poetics Program, New College of California
Teaching experience includes: Bard College (Center for Curatorial Studies and the Graduate School of the Arts), Naropa Institute (The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics), New York University, Yale University
Books include: Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics; Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics; The Fighting Is a Dance, Too: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero
Contributing editor: Aperture, The Brooklyn Rail; founding editor, ACTS: A Journal of New Writing. Other publications include: Artforum, Art in America, The Nation, Art Journal, Cabinet
Awards and honors include: Guggenheim Fellowship; Infinity Award for Writing, International Center of Photography; Artspace Grant for New Writing in Art Criticism; Polaroid Fellowship; Reva & David Logan Grant, Boston University

Suzanne Anker

Chair, BFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts; fine artist; critic
Education: BA, Brooklyn College; MFA, University of Colorado at Boulder
Publications include: Art Journal, Tema Celeste, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Leonardo, Nature Reviews Genetics, Seed, Update: New York Academy of Sciences magazine. Co-author, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age
Group exhibitions include: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, Japan

William Beckley

Fine artist, editor
Education: BFA, Kutztown University; MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Editorial positions held: Editor, Aesthetics Today series, including the anthologies Uncontrollable Beauty and Sticky Sublime
Narrative works exhibitions: Paris Biennale; Venice Biennale; Documenta; Whitney Biennial; Miró Foundation, Barcelona
One-person Exhibitions include: Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography; Tony Shafrazi Gallery; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf and Berlin; Studio Trisorio, Rome and Naples; Gallerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Collections include: Whitney Museum of American Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Tate Gallery, London
Awards and honors include: National Endowment for the Arts

Susan Bee

Editor; writer; fine artist; co-editor, M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. Co-editor, special issues, New Observations, Artkrush; co-editor, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues and M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism
Website: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bee
Education: BA, Barnard College; MA, Hunter College
Artist's books include: Talespin, Bed Hangings, Log Rhythms, A Girl's Life, Little Orphan Anagram, The Burning Babe and Other Poems
One-person exhibition: A.I.R. Gallery
Awards and honors include: New York State Council on the Arts, Yaddo Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Roger Denson

Curator, author, critic
Education: BA, SUNY at Buffalo
Professional experience: curator, Hallwalls; exhibitions director, Jayne Baum Gallery; guest curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; A-Space, Toronto; The New Museum; Alternative Museum; Amy Lipton Gallery; Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Books include: Dennis Oppenheim; Hunter Reynolds: Memento Mori, Memoriter; Consider the Alternatives, Twenty Years of Contemporary Art at Hallwalls
Publications include: Art in America, Artbyte, Parkett, Flash Art, Contemporanea, Artscribe, Acme Journal, Tema Celeste

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Writer; program director, MICA in Tribeca
Education: BA, Sarah Lawrence College; MA, New York University; PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Books, catalogues and anthologies include: How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway; Ellen Gallagher; Peter Halley: Maintain Speed; Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player; Andrea Fraser; Tom Friedman; Carolee Schneemann; Louise Bourgeois; PUPPY; Cremaster 5 (book project); The Monster's Progress: The Art of James Barsness
Publications include: Parkett, Artforum, Trans, Art in America, SF Camerawork, Artbyte, Guggenheim magazine

Tom Huhn

Chair, Art History Department and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department, School of Visual Arts; coordinator, Honors Program, School of Visual Arts; philosopher; critic
Education: AB, Sarah Lawrence; MA, PhD, Boston University
Books include: Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant; The Cambridge Companion to Adorno; The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste; The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Publications include: Oxford Art Journal, British Journal of Aesthetics, New German Critique, Art & Text, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Telos, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy and Social Criticism
Curatorial works include: "Ornament and Landscape," Apex Gallery; "Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life," Visual Arts Museum and Westport Arts Center, CT
Awards include: Getty Scholar; Fulbright Scholar; First Prize, American Society for Aesthetics Essay Contest; New York State Council for the Humanities

Ken Johnson

Art critic, New York Times; contributing editor, writer, Art in America. Formerly, senior art critic, Boston Globe
Education: BA, Brown University; MA, SUNY Albany
Publications include: Vogue, Arts magazine, New Art Examiner, Art New England

Raphael Rubinstein

Poet, critic, editor
Senior editor, Art in America. Formerly, managing editor, Flash Art
Education: BA, Bennington College
Books include: Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002; Critical Mess; The Basement of the Cafe Rilke; Postcards from Alphaville
Publications include: Grand Street, American Poetry Review, Oulipo Compendium
Award: Chevalier dans l'Order des Arts et des Lettres

Past Guest Speakers

Arthur Danto
Mira Schor
David Carrier
Donald Kuspit
Tom McEvilley
Carter Ratcliff
Johanna Drucker
Carlo McCormick
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Charles Bernstein
Jerry Saltz
Michael Brenson
Michael Taussig
Ann Lauterbach
Phong Bui
Eugenie Tsai
Adriana Valdes
Nancy Princenthal
Barry Schwabsky

Future Guest Speakers

Leo Steinberg
Ann Lauterbach
Carol Becker
W.J.T. Mitchell
Linda Nochlin
Bill Berkson

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