New York Times Art Critic Roberta Smith to lecture April 7

Roberta Smith
Roberta Smith

The Department of Art and Art History presents a lecture by Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic of The New York Times on Tuesday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s auditorium.

Her lecture, titled “Criticism in the Expanded Field,” is free and open to the public.

Smith is an art critic for The New York Times, where she has written since 1986, and a lecturer on contemporary art.

She was born in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. She graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa in 1969.

Prior to writing for The New York Times, she was an art critic for the Village Voice from 1981-1985, and in the 1970s, she wrote for Artforum, Art in America and Arts Magazine. Her work has also appeared in Newsweek, Vogue and other publications.

In addition, she wrote the featured essay in the Donald Judd catalog raisonné and has contributed essays to museum catalogs on various artists, including Judd, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray and Cy Twombly.

Smith has lectured widely and taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and the Rhode Island School of Design.

She has received art criticism grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1975 and 1980. In 2003, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association.