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This course will look broadly at the basics of art writing and will include writing art criticism and artist’s statements.
Equally vital for critics and artists, emphasis will be on directing readers’ attention to observing the precise elements in an artwork that support your ideas.
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Lunch and refreshments will be included in the course fee
Dr Gilda Williams is a London correspondent for Artforum magazine, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College on the MFA curating programme and a member of the International Association of Art Critics. Williams’ writings on contemporary art have appeared in The Guardian, Artforum, Parkett, Tate etc., Art Monthly, Art in America and Time Out magazines, and on film in Sight and Sound magazine. She is author of the best-selling How to Write about Contemporary Art (Thames&Hudson, 2014), which has been translated into five languages; her most recent book is On and By Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel, 2016).
