Renny Pritikin, Patricia Maloney, Brandon Brown, Meg Shiffler and Erin O'Toole join Dominic Willsdon and Suzanne Stein in conversation.
Starting this fall, Open Space (the SFMOMA blog) is taking its online forum for critical and personal writings about art, visual culture, and issues specific to the Bay Area into real time & space. On occasional Thursdays, current and former columnists and contributors will host discussion-based events, developing programs to their own interests. The evenings will be informal, intimate, and inviting, as well as engaged, critical conversations.
On this first evening, we’ll be talking about art writing in the Bay Area, and especially the forms of writing, critical and otherwise, that museums allow and deny. What forms of speech and writing can the museum can promote and tolerate in good faith? In what ways can or should a museum be a platform for language arts? How can or should SFMOMA, and Open Space, support, add to or expand the proliferation of art discourse, critical and personal, here in the Bay Area?
With:
Brandon Brown, poet, translator, publisher, and Open Space columnist
Patricia Maloney, editor of Art Practical
Renny Pritikin, director and curator of the Nelson Gallery and Fine Art Collection at UC Davis, and Open Space columnist
Erin O’Toole, associate curator of photography, SFMOMA
Meg Shiffler, Gallery Director, San Francisco Arts Commission
Hosted by:
Suzanne Stein, community producer and managing editor of Open Space, SFMOMA, and Dominic Willsdon, curator of education and public programs, SFMOMA
Please join us! The conversation will begin at 7pm in the Koret Visitor Education Center on the second floor, and is free with museum admission, half-price after 6pm.
