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Rediscovering The New Yorker's Wolcott Gibbs
Monday, November 14, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, NYC
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required
When The New Yorker first began publication in 1925, founding editor Harold Ross intended it to be a smart magazine of metropolitan life. Many of the writers who created the magazine's distinct style during the its early days are still read today, including E.B. White, James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, and St. Clair McKelway. One of the best but overlooked writers from this era is Wolcott Gibbs who joined The New Yorker in 1927, and remained on staff as a writer and editor until his death in 1958. Gibbs was the longtime theater critic, but also wrote short stories, Talk of the Town pieces, and parodies. As E.B. White said, "All of his stuff was good, much of it superb - smart, memorable, funny. His style had a brilliance which was never flashy, he was self-critical as well as critical, and he had absolute pitch, which enabled him to be a parodist of the first rank." This discussion will introduce readers to this great, forgotten author as the panelists will discuss Wolcott Gibbs's life and work.
Panelists include Thomas Vinciguerra, editor of Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker, the new anthology published by Bloomsbury; Kurt Anderson host of Studio 360; Mark Singer, staff writer for The New Yorker. Sponsored by Creative Writing at The New School and Bloomsbury Publishing
The Fifth Annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture - Peter Schjeldahl: The Critic as Artist in 2011
Thursday, November 17, 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC
Admission: $8; free to AICA members, all students, and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with valid ID.
Tickets: www.newschool.edu/events or 212.229.5488 Mondays through Thursdays 4 - 7pm and Fridays 3 - 6pm only
Is updating Oscar Wilde possible? If anyone could do it, it would be the art critic, educator, and celebrated poet Peter Schjeldahl. Schjeldahl has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998 and is currently the magazine's art critic. He came to The New Yorker from the Village Voice, where he was the art critic from 1980 to 1998. Previously he wrote for the New York Times' Arts and Leisure section. His writing has also appeared in Artforum; Art in America; the New York Times Magazine; Vogue; and Vanity Fair. Schjeldahl has received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association for excellence in art criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of four books, including The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings, published in 1991. This annual event addresses current issues in the world of art criticism. The evening is presented by the International Association of Art Critics (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, or AICA) in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. For information about AICA, visitwww.aicausa.org.
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