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The Review Panel: September 30 Launch of Eighth Annual Season

THE EDITORS — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:07:10 +0000

artcritical’s monthly forum, The Review Panel, returns to the National Academy Museum and School of Art September 30 for its eighth season. The line-up in September sees Carly Berwick, Ellie Bronson and Peter Plagens as David Cohen’s guests.

Annual Reception at the National Academy of Design, New York, a wood engraving from a sketch by W. S. L. Jewett, published in Harper's Weekly, May 1868.

Bronson appears on the panel for the first time while Berwick and Plagens are “repeat offenders.” Other confirmed guests for the 2011/12 season include Patricia Milder, David Brody, Karen Gover, Ken Johnson, Michèle Cone, Ana Finel Honigman, Anthony Haden-Guest, Christina Kee, Franklin Einspruch, Faye Hirsch, Bill Berkson, Karen Wilkin, Lance Esplund, Maddie Phinney and Barry Schwabsky.

The Review Panel conducted much of its 2010/11 season in an otherwise shuttered Huntington Mansion as the headquarters of the National Academy underwent extensive renovations. The building is scheduled to reopen to the public in September 2011 with a series of festivities including a retrospective of Will Barnet, the artist, who recently turned 100.

The dates of the panel in the 2011/12 season will be September 30, October 28, November 18, January 27, February 24, March 30, and April 27. Cohen will moderate each evening, as he has all panels since the inception of the program in October 2004 when the guests were Ken Johnson, Maureen Mullarkey and Jerry Saltz.

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Pulitzer won by Boston Globe Art Critic Sebastian Smee

David Cohen — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:31:37 +0000

Sebastian Smee has won this year’s Pulitzer prize for criticism: The 37 year old Australian is art critic for the Boston Globe. The two named “finalists” (ie. runners up) in this category were Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture correspondent for the New York Times, and Jonathan Gold, a restaurant critic on LA Weekly.

Sebastian Smee, Art Critic of the Boston Globe

Criticism is one of fourteen Pulitzers awarded in journalism. There are separate prizes in the arts (letters, drama and music). It is relatively rare for the criticism’s laurels to go to an art critic. Although Holland Cotter of the New York Times picked up the prize in 2009, the previous and only other time the award went to an art critic was Emily Genauer’s win in 1974. In recent years Michael Kimmelman and Jerry Saltz have been listed as finalists. The Pulitzer Prize dates back to 1917 but the criticism category was instituted in 1970.

Smee’s citation reads: “For his vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation.” He joined to Boston Globe in May 2008, replacing Ken Johnson who returned to the New York Times after his brief tenure at the Globe. Formerly critic for The Australian, Smee was based for a number of years in London where he wrote for The Daily Telegraph and for art publications such as Modern Painters and The Art Newspaper. He is the author of books and catalog essays devoted to Lucian Freud.

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