Headquartered in New York, AICA-USA's membership comprises over 500 critics, curators, scholars, and art historians working throughout the United States. AICA-USA supports arts writers through programs and membership that offers free access to museums across the globe.
Open Call
2026 Art Critic Fellowship
Application Deadline: October 13, 2025, 11:59PM ET
Photo Credit: Dr. Kellie Jones. Photos by Daniel Jackson for Embassy: Interactive.
2025 Distinguished Critic Lecture
Kellie Jones
Body/Knowledge
Dec 1, 2025, 6:30–8:00pm ET
In-person and livestreamed
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New York
Art historian and curator Kellie Jones delivers the 19th annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School, co-presented with the VLC. In this lecture, Jones reflects on the theoretical legacy and cultural production of Black women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, raising questions of intellectual lineage and material knowledge.
2025 Art Critic Fellowship Publication:
Featuring:
Emily Alesandrini
Francess Archer Dunbar
May Howard
Amy Kennedy
Kit Xiong
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Membership
AICA's membership card is recognized for entrance to museums around the world. Members are invited to attend the annual AICA International Congress, hosted each year by a different member nation, and the AICA-USA annual meeting.