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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

August 11 - August 11, 2011

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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SFAI Art Criticism Conference: Bill Berkson - Growing up an Art Critic
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Art Criticism Conference, conference founder and Professor Emeritus Bill Berkson will join Dean Jeannene Przyblyski in a dialogue about his career as an art writer, and his original founding of the conference. Bill Berkson is a widely published poet and critic who from 1984 to 2008 was professor of Liberal Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and a contributor to such other journals as Artforum and Aperture. In 2003, Qua Press published a selection of his critical writings titled "The Sweet Singer of Modernism and other Art Writings 1985-2003," and in 2008 Cuneiform Press issued his "Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006." In a recent review in The Nation of Berkson's newest book, "For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces and More" (BlazeVOX Books, 2011), Barry Schwabsky wrote: "[Berkson’s] reviews, especially, should be required reading for any budding art critic. He shows how the job should be done." The event is free and open to the public. 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. 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