New York Times art critic to present UNT's annual Nasher lecture Nov. 21

Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times' chief art critic, will present UNT's fifth Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Lecture Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism.

Kimmelman will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 21 in the Eagle Student Services Center, Room 255.

Kimmelman has been chief art critic of the New York Times since 1990 and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in criticism. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and writes occasionally for other magazines. His book Portraits: Talking With Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere was named a notable book of the year by the Washington Post and the Times and a best book of the year by Publisher's Weekly. Portraits is now published in paperback by Modern Library.

Kimmelman received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University and a graduate degree in art history from Harvard University, where he was an Arthur Kingsley Porter Fellow. In winter 2000, he was a senior fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.

The lecture series — established with a gift from Raymond Nasher's daughter Nancy A. Nasher, son-in-law David J. Haemisegger and granddaughter Sarah Nasher Haemisegger — is designed to bring nationally and internationally known sculptors and critics to UNT's School of Visual Arts and the general public.

The series began with a presentation by Nasher and continued with lectures by British art critic Matthew Collings, landscape architect Peter Walker and sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz. For more information, call the UNT School of Visual Arts at (940) 565-2855.

BY KELLEY REESE kreese@unt.edu

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