Archive Highlights


Special Events

  • “Critics’ Dilemmas” a panel discussion at Rubin Museum of Art

    May 23, 2011. A guided tour of the Rubin Museum of Art’s new exhibition, preceding our Annual Meeting. The exhibition on view “Quentin Roosevelt’s China: Ancestral Realms of the Naxi,” unites approximately 100 works of Naxi religious art primarily acquired in the early-to mid-20th century by Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as by the botanist-explorer Joseph Rock. The Annual Meeting will be followed by the panel “Critics’ Dilemmas: Naughty, Nice, or just Plain Honest”. Participants include: Elisabeth Kley, Barbara MacAdam, Peter Plagens, and Walter Robinson. The panel of guests will discuss the current state of art and art criticism. AICA member and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, João Ribas will moderate the panel.

  • The Third Annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture: Roberta Smith

    The Third Annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture: Roberta Smith at The New School University, November 5, 2009

  • Holland Cotter: “Art Critic, So What?” Lecture, Nov. 11, 2010-Audio Recording

    An audio recording of the Holland Cotter: “Art Critic, So What?” Lecture at the Vera List Center, The New School University, November 11, 2010. Photo credits for above photographs- #1 courtesy of Phyllis Tuchman. #2 & #3 courtesy of ©by Jill Krementz

  • Kim Levin Reception

    On January 10, 2006, Ronald Feldman Gallery hosted a special reception for Kim Levin, former AICA/USA president and president of AICA International, on the occasion of the exhibit "Notes and Itineraries." These were her collection of gallery announcements on which she took notes, forming the basis of art reviews."

  • 2005 Christo Symposium

    THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ART CRITICS (AICA/USA) ­­is pleased to announce a day-long symposium in connection with the installation of "The Gates: Central Park, New York" by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. ­ ART, DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC SPACE: THE CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE EFFECT Guggenheim Museum February 25, 9:15 AM to 5 PM (Enter Auditorium at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue)