Intended Audience
Ostrow’s lecture will focus on his curatorial practice and is entitled “Career by Chance.” It will take place in Glendening Annex at 4:45 p.m. and conclude with a short walk to the Boyden Gallery, Montgomery Hall for a brief tour of Professor Sue Johnson’s exhibition, Self-Fashioning: Symmetrical Bodies. Saul Ostrow, New York art critic and curator is the author of the exhibition catalog essay, “Sue Johnson: From the Domestic to the Glamourized.”
Saul Ostrow is an independent curator, consultant, and critic. Since 1985, he has organized over 80 exhibitions in the US and abroad. His writings have appeared in art magazines, journals, catalogues, and books in the USA and Europe. In 2010, he founded along with David Goodman and Edouard Prulehiere, the not-for-profit Critical Practices Inc. (criticalpractices.org) as a platform for conversation on social and cultural practices. He has served as Art Editor at Bomb Magazine, Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (1996-2004) and was editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (1996-2006) published by Routledge, London.