The 2010 Peter Fuller Memorial Lecture
David Cohen: Twenty Years Less Fuller
Thursday, 13
May 2010 at 6.00 pm
Kenneth Clark
Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Peter
Fuller was a writer whose tastes and priorities evolved in tandem with shifting
intellectual and spiritual concerns. A man of restless imagination with an
agitational approach to the art world, he made very public the constant search
for value and meaning. The twentieth anniversary of his death is a moment for
speculation: How have his ideas – and the artists he championed or
berated – fared without him? What would he have made of culture today? Is
there a Peter Fuller-shaped hole in contemporary criticism?
David
Cohen is editor and publisher of artcritical.com
and Gallery Director at the New
York Studio School. He has been based in New York since 1999. He was,
in its early years, a regular contributor to Modern
Painters, from the magazine’s first issue in Spring 1988. The
author of books on Henry Moore and Alex Katz, he was art critic for the New York Sun from 2003-2008.
The
Peter Fuller Memorial Lecture was inaugurated in 1991 and has taken place over
the years at Tate Britain,
Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and University
College, London. Previous speakers were David
Matthews, Robert Natkin, Roger Scruton, Howard Jacobson, William Tucker, Hilton
Kramer, Timothy Hyman, Deanna Petherbridge, George Walden, John Berger, Julian
Stallabrass, Rudi Fuchs, Tal R, Luc Tuymans and Martin Maloney.
The
Peter Fuller Memorial Lectures are organised by The Peter Fuller Memorial
Foundation. A second event this anniversary year, a conversation between Sir
Anthony Caro and Paul Moorhouse, will take place at Tate Modern on 19 May.
Open to all, free
admission
(Lecture finishes by 7.30pm)
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