Stanford Humanities Center
NEW SERIES: Arts Critics in Residence
Joan Acocella
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Lecture: "Reviewing: Is It an Art or a Craft?"
About the Speaker
Joan Acocella is the dance critic of The New Yorker, where she also reviews books. She has published Mark Morris, a critical biography; Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism; and Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder. She also edited the first unexpurgated English-language edition of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. With the publication of her collection of essays Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints in 2007, she received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature
About the Series
This series engages with one of the most essential and currently imperiled arenas of arts criticism: journalistic daily and weekly writing for the public. It brings one leading arts critic to campus per quarter to enter into public conversations with art practitioners, humanistic scholars, and students interested in the arts.
Program
Lecture
"Reviewing: Is it an Art or a Craft?"
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University
Discussion: On Writer's Block
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 12:00 noon
Reading available at http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/14/040614fa_fact
and in hard copy at the Humanities Center.
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University
Student Workshop (participation limited)
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Stanford Humanities Center
(to apply: contact Matthew Tiews: mtiews@stanford.edu)
Other Arts Critics in the series:
David Thomson
Film Critic
November 14-15 2007
Anthony Tommasini
Chief Music Critic, The New York Times
May 14-15, 2008
This series is sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Creativity in the Arts, the Stanford Humanities Center, the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Drama Department, and the Film Studies program
Events
Book celebration
March 15, 2007
2007 marked the fourteenth annual Humanities Center celebration to honor works written, edited, and performed by humanities faculty members at Stanford and published during the 2006 calendar year.
The annual "book" celebration has now expanded to include compact discs and other multimedia works.
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