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Art Scholar Eleanor Heartney to Deliver Free Afternoon Lecture on November 9

Contemporary art scholar Eleanor Heartney, an independent cultural critic and author, will be featured in the New Jersey City University Visiting Artist Program’s “Distinguished Lecture Series” on Monday, November 9 at 12:00 p.m., in Room 202 of Hepburn Hall, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City.

Co-sponsored by the NJCU Office of the Dean of the William J. Maxwell College of Arts and Sciences and Art Department, the lecture is free and open to the community,

A contributing editor for Art in America and Artpress, Ms. Heartney is the author of many books on contemporary art, including After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art, Postmodernism, Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, Defending Complexity: Art, Politics and the New World Order, Art and Today, and Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads.

She has also written extensively for such publications as Art News, News Art Examiner, The Washington Post, Sculpture, and The New York Times.

The recipient of the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 2008, Ms. Heartney has also received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism.

Ms. Heartney is a past president of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association.

For further information call the NJCU Art Department at (201) 200-3214 or e-mail Brian Gustafson, NJCU Visiting Artist Program coordinator, at bgustafson@njcu.edu.

News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.