VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY ART LECTURE SERIES

In partnership with UM’s Creative Writing Program, MAM presents poet, art critic, and curator John Yau. Yau will talk about the artist Philip Guston in this not-to-be-missed lecture. Yau is the author of numerous works of art criticism and artists’ books, including A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (2008), The United States of Jasper Johns (1996), and he recently contributed to the monograph John Buck published by Marquand Books. Yau has been the arts editor of the Brooklyn Rail since 2004. He teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers University. He has written on artists such as, Andy Warhol, Joe Coleman, James Castle, and Kay WalkingStick.