December 11th, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
Eleanor Heartney has been writing about art since 1981. She is Contributing Editor to Artpress, Editor-at -Large for the Brooklyn Rail, former Contributing Editor to Art in America and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for such other magazines as Artnews, Artnet, Art and Auction, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Heartney was the 1992 recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and has also received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Asian Cultural Council. Her books include Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads; Postmodernism; Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art; Defending Complexity; and Art and Today. She is a co-author, along with Nancy Princenthal, Helaine Posner and Sue Scott, of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art; The Reckoning: Women Artists in the New Millennium and the forthcoming Mothers of Invention: the Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art. Heartney is past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association. In 2008 she was honored by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Nancy Princenthal is a Brooklyn-based writer whose book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (Thames & Hudson, 2019) was named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times, and one of the best of the decade by Art News. Her previous, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson, 2015) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She is also the author of Hannah Wilke (Prestel, 2010), and her essays have appeared in monographs on Katherine Bradford, Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Willie Cole, Gary Simmons, Lesley Dill and Alfredo Jaar, among many others. A former Senior Editor of Art in America, she has also contributed to such publications as the New York Times, Bomb Magazine, Apollo, Hyperallergic and the Brooklyn Rail. Princenthal has taught at Bard College, Princeton University, Yale University, the School of Visual Arts and NYU’s Institute of Fine Art. She is currently working on a biography of Louise Bourgeois.