What Kind of Change? A City of Culture in a Global Competition

Michael Kimmelman

The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art and the US Embassy Prague cordially invite you to a talk with Michael Kimmelman "A City of Culture in a Global Competition" at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.

When: Thursday, June, 23, 6 PM
Where: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, Prague 7

The talk will be led by Jaroslav Anděl, the art director of Dox
Centre for Contemporary Art.

The talk will be held in English.

Michael Kimmelman the longtime chief art critic for the New York Times and, since 2007, the paper's Abroad columnist based in Berlin. He has written at length about, among others, the artists Richard Serra, Michael Heizer, Lucian Freud, Raymond Pettibon and Matthew Barney along with the architects Shigeru Ban, Peter Zumthor and Oscar Niemeyer. He has covered topics on culture and society across Europe and elsewhere: the crackdown on cultural freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, life in Gaza under Hamas, the rise of the far-right in Hungary, Négritude in France, bullfighting in contemporary Spain, Czech humor in the context of political protest, and Holocaust education for a new generation of Germans. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, he also contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books.


Jaroslav Anděl — the art director of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.  Art theoretician, curator and author of a number of exhibitions on modern and contemporary art, both in the Czech Republic and abroad.  He initiated the projects  „Jaká je vize Prahy“ and  „12 hodin budoucnosti: maratón myšlenek, idejí, tezí“.  A member of the executive team of the 30th Council of Europe exhibition Critique and Crisis: Art in Europe since 1945, which tours the European museums between 2010 and 2014.