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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

August 9 - August 9, 2011

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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SFAI Art Criticism Conference: Oscar Wilde’s - The Critic as Artist
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, SFAI’s Art Criticism Conference acquaints participants with the contemporary practice of writing about art in its many poetic and professional functions, as well as with art-historical practice. For eight years, the Art Criticism Conference has staged a public reading of Oscar Wilde’s famous 1980 play “The Critic as Artist” as part of its annual inquiry into the state of art criticism. Full of witty repartee, the play is a philosophical dialogue that takes the role of criticism as its subject. It makes provocative claims about the importance of criticism to art, as well as why criticism should be something more than mere journalism. More than one hundred years after its initial publication, the issues raised by this play still resonate, and in many ways the play anticipates the philosophical orientations of many postmodern critics. Actor and teacher Clayton B. Hodges, currently of Sierra Repertory Theatre, directs the reading, and will also perform along with Nick Childress, a graduate of the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program. The 2011 Art Criticism Conference is coordinated by Mark Van Proyen, art critic and Associate Professor in SFAI’s Painting Department. San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 Free and open to the public