New York Times Art Critic to Deliver Fox/Adler Lecture

Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic at The New York Times, will discuss “Art in Aisle One: The Early History of American Museum and Department Stores” when he delivers Skidmore’s annual Fox/Adler Lecture Sept. 25.

Free and open to the public, the talk will begin at 5:15 p.m. in the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

Kimmelman is also a contributor to The New York Review of Books and an occasional guest host on the television program"Breakfast with the Arts" on A&E. His book, Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, was based on a series of conversation with the artists during visits to the museums. The book (1998, Random House) was selected as a notable book of the year by The Washington Post and the Times. He is currently working on a book about the origins of museums and the promotion of modern art in America.

Kimmelman holds degrees in history and art history from Yale and Harvard, where he was an Arthur Kingsley Porter Fellow. He was a senior fellow at the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia. He also is a concert pianist and performs regularly on recital series around the country.

The Fox/Adler Lecture Series was inaugurated in 1991 in honor of Hannah Moriarta Adler, a Saratoga Springs native and avid collector of 18th- and 19th-century books, drawings, and porcelains. In 1967 she loaned her extensive collection of 19th-century books to Skidmore, and they remain at the College’s Scribner Library courtesy of Norman M. Fox, who took charge of the collection upon Mrs. Adler’s death in 1989.

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