The Review Panel #74 - Siri Hustvedt, Roberta Smith and Alexi Worth with moderator David Cohen

February 9th, with Siri Hustvedt, Roberta Smith and Alexi Worth

The Review Panel has a new home: Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Cultural Center at 10 Grand Army Plaza.

As critic and biographer Blake Gopnik has said, “The Review Panel goes at it hammer and tongs.” Three critics join me, David Cohen, founder and moderator of the program, for a live public debate, looking typically at four carefully selected current solo shows of new work by contemporary artists. Audience members, many seeing the shows ahead of the evening, play a lively role in deliberations. As artist and critic Alexi Worth, a guest on our first Brooklyn panel and a longstanding audience member, wrote recently, “As print criticism shrinks, The Review Panel is ever more valuable, as a model, a magnet, and a proof that ‘serious’ can also mean ‘entertaining.’”

Joining Worth February 9 are a stalwart of The Review Panel and a newcomer: respectively, Roberta Smith, co-chief critic of The New York Times, and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of The Blindfold, What I Loved and most recently The Blazing World. In a nice nod to our new hosts, the line-up of speakers and subjects reveals a healthy Brooklyn bias: Hustvedt and Worth, who shows at DC Moore Gallery, live in the Borough, while two of the three venues whose shows are up for discussion are in Red Hook and Bushwick.