Poet and critic Bill Berkson inaugurated the fall lecture series on October 9th, 2008 at the Amphitheater on 23rd Street with “Some Divine Conversation: Poetry, Art and the Death of the Addressee.”

Watch the full lecture on our vimeo account, here. 
Read conversation between Berkson and David Levi Strauss in The Brooklyn Rail, here.

Upcoming in the Art Writing Lecture Series, Carol Becker will speak on November 13th about “Values Implicit in Schools of Art and Design,” and W.J.T. Mitchell will appear December 11th, addressing Jacques Rancière’s book The Future of the Image.