2014-2015 Hilldale Lecture in Arts and Humanities

Pulitzer-winning art critic Cotter describes the challenge of translating his experience of global culture into language. Despite the market visibility of a few exotic “others,” contemporary art in the United States is in a very isolationist phase, with the Euro-American market translating everything into a single consumer-friendly global language. By contrast, Cotter finds extremely interesting new art is being produced in new “languages” everywhere you look, if you make the effort to look.