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Strictly Critical
For one night only, live, in the library at Ringling College, the main event, a debate between two
of today’s preeminent art critics, a reprise of their legendary debates for Artnet, Strictly Critical,
it’s a heavyweight rematch 10 years in the making.
In the red corner, art critic for The New York Times, author of Warhol (2020) and The Maverick’s
Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream (2025) from Harper Collins, a graduate of
McGill University, he holds a PhD from Oxford University, the incomparable, Blake Gopnik.
In the blue corner, art critic for The Village Voice, curator at-large for USF Contemporary Art
Museum, co-founder of The Brooklyn Rail, 2010 Arts Writers Grant recipient, author of Social
Forms: A Short History of Political Art (2018) from Zwirner Books, and soon-to-be guest
curator at The Bronx Museum, the inimitable, Christian Viveros-Fauné.
The two will argue opposing viewpoints on some of today’s most polarizing art and artists. It’ll
be a clash of criticism, a duel of discourse, a polemical pandemonium, a rumble of the written
word, an extravaganza of ekphrasis, an onslaught of ontology, a chance to once and for all
determine who’s right and who isn’t wrong.
Let’s get ready to critiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiique!
Presented by: Ringling College Galleries, Fine Arts Department, Liberal Arts Department
Event Links
YouTube: https://go.evvnt.com/3330085-0
