Author and Art Critic Arthur Danto to Speak

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

In conjunction with current exhibition Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, The Wexner Center presents a talk by revered art critic Arthur Danto who will be discussing his forthcoming book The Windows at Bonwit Teller: Where Andy Became Andy Warhol, on Tuesday, December 2 at 7 pm in the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Theater. A booksigning and reception will begin at 6 pm. Admission is free.

In April 1961 Andy Warhol developed a window display for Bonwit Teller department store, in which his paintings based on newspaper ads and comics served as backdrops for fashionably dressed mannequins. That moment became a crucial turning point in Warhol’s transition from commercial to "mainstream" artist—and it's the starting point for a new book by Arthur Danto (to be published in 2009 by Yale University Press). Danto, author of Beyond the Brillo Box and one of the most celebrated scholars of contemporary art and philosophy, offers a "sneak preview" of his thoughts in this talk.

Arthur Danto serves as art critic for The Nation and editor for the Journal of Philosophy. The Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University, he is also the author of many well known books and essays, including After the End of Art and The Abuse of Beauty. Danto delivered the Wexner Center’s 2006 Lambert Lecture and is a member of its International Arts Advisory Council.

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Major support for the Wexner Center’s 2008–09 education season is generously provided by Battelle.

 

All education programs and events also receive support from the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and Wexner Center members, as well as from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Columbus Foundation, Nationwide Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council.