Tackle shifting paradigms of modern and contemporary art on a global stage in this two-day symposium organized by the Department of the History of Art.

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Keynote lecture by Holland Cotter: Global is Personal

Abstract

Globalism is about geography and markets, but it’s also an inside job. An account of one critic growing up in an expanding and complicated world through art, and learning to see writing as a form of translation.

About Holland Cotter

Holland Cotter is co-chief art critic and a senior writer at the New York Times. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2009. In 2010, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Writing by the College Art Association.

In 2012, he was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University, and the recipient of the Religion and the Arts Award from the American Academy of Religion. In April 2013, he was the Alain LeRoy Locke lecturer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. In 2014, he received the inaugural Award for Excellence in Criticism from the International Association of Art Critics.

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View the second day’s program.
International Modern / Global Contemporary (Day 2)