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CHRISTOPHER HOWARD: The Decentered Art World – Presentation and Talk

CHRISTOPHER HOWARD: The Decentered Art World – Presentation and Talk
Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:00 p,pm
Institute for Contemporary Art, Trg kralja Tomislava 20, Zagreb

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Finale 2015!, jur member, RADOSLAV PUTAR AWARD,
exhibition opening and announcement of 2015 Winner
Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica, 12. 6. 2015. at 8:00 p.m.

Christopher Howard is a Vilcek Foundation Fellow member of the Jury of Radoslav Putar Award 2015, in the second and final round of the competition for the 14th award of the prize.

Christopher will deliver an informal talk and presentation as an art critic and curator, and will talk about his blog In Terms Of. He will speak about „Decentered Art World“, based on his experience acquired with his friends artists in New York and the experiences gained in encounters with previous Winners of the network YVAA.

Christopher Howard is a critic, editor, and occasional curator. He works for the College Art Association as managing editor and earned a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Florida and an MA in art history from Hunter College. His writing on art and music has been published by artforum.com, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Burnaway, the L Magazine, and the Brooklyn Rail, among others. Last year his blog In Terms Of, which reviews panels and lectures in the arts and humanities, received a major award from the Arts Writers Grant Program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

http://www.christopher-howard.net/
http://www.in-terms-of.com/author/chris/

The Vilcek Foundation Fellowship enables the US experts to join the juries of the awards operating in the international network YVAA – Young Visual Artists.

YVAA is the network developed in ten countries iin former East Europe that award similar prizes, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, together with other members is a co-founder with the The Foundation for a Civil Society.

The Foundation for a Civil Society founded the first prize in the network, Jindrich Chalupecky Prize, in Czech Republic, thanks to Vaclav Havel and Wendy Luers, and enables the establishment of other awards in the network. The rest is history.

YVAA co-founders and members are:
Albania, Ardhje Award | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zvono Award | Bulgaria BAZA Award | Czech Republic, Jindrch Chalupecky | Croatia, Radoslav Putar Award | Kosova, The Artist of Tomorrow | Macedonia, Denes Award | Slovakia, Oskar Čepan Prize | Slovenia, Nagrada skupine OHO | Serbia, Dimitrije Bašičević – Mangelos