Steven Henry Madoff: What Space Means

Steven Henry Madoff, an award-winning writer, editor, and poet, has written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as Artforum, the New York Times, and Time magazine, and has authored or contributed to numerous monographs on leading artists, including Rebecca Horn, Christopher Wilmarth, and Marina Abramović.

In today’s lecture, he considers spaces that artists construct within the complex dynamics of both the everyday and the extraordinary world, including contested spaces of conflict and destruction. Madoff is the former executive editor of ARTnews magazine, a senior critic at Yale University's School of Art, and a member of the founding faculty for the School of Visual Arts' Masters Program in Art Practice. He is currently at work on a book on the history and theory of interdisciplinary art.

After the talk, Madoff joins artist and Ohio State art prof Ann Hamilton for a book signing in the Wexner Center Store, featuring the catalogue Ann Hamilton: Stylus to which Madoff contributed.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art.