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Michael Kimmelman - An American Abroad: Culture and Society in Europe - Smithsonian American Art Museum Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
ended Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM
achived URL:
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/clarice...
event website URL:
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/clarice...
start date and time:
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:00 PM
end date and time:
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM
categories:
arts & culture
international
event description:
video webcast -
Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times' chief art critic and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, presents as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The topic is An American Abroad: Culture and Society in Europe
Michael Kimmelman's most recent book, The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, was a national bestseller. TIME described the book as a "transcendent experience." He is presently based out of Berlin and writes a column in The New York Times on European society and culture.
Mr. Kimmelman's book, Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere, was chosen by The Washington Post and The New York Times as a notable book of the year. Publishers Weekly selected the book as best book of the year and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 2000.
The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American art series was established by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2004. The series presents new insights and perspectives on American art from leading artists, critics and scholars.
