Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Location: CBC A-112

Peter Schjeldahl, poet and head art critic for The New Yorker, will be a guest speaker at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, as part of the UNLV Department of Art Visiting Artist Program. The lecture will be held in CBC A-112 on the UNLV campus and is free and open to the public.

Schjeldahl settled in New York City in 1965. He has worked as an art critic for ARTnews, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and 7 Days. In 1998 he joined The New Yorker where he is currently the head art critic. During his career, Schjeldahl has written several books of poetry, as well as art criticism. He also taught at Harvard University in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies for four years. He has been honored with a Guggenheim fellowship for his poetry and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism by the College Art Association.