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Saul Ostrow: Modeling a Critical Practice: Rehearsing Self-reflexivity, Knowledge, and Research 

Saul Ostrow is an independent critic, and curator, the Art Editor at Large for Bomb Magazine. He has also served as Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (1996-2004) and as the Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (1996- 2006) published by Routledge, London. 

As a curator he has organized over 70 exhibition in the US and abroad. Most recently he has curated Heres Looking Back at You: Images of Woman from the ESKFF Collection, Mana Contemporary Arts, Jersey City, NJ. His writings have appeared in art magazines, journals, catalogs, and books in the USA and Europe. 

In 2010, he founded the not-for-profit Critical Practices Inc. (criticalpractices.org) to promote critical discourse and practices. Its core programs are: 21StPROJECTS, which sponsors viewings of artists’ works, and La Table Ronde (initiated in 2012,) which organizes roundtable discussions on critical, theoretical, and cultural issues, and LEF(t) a broadsheet publication consisting of text and visual projects. 

He is also engaged in two collaborative projects. Since 2008, he has worked with the artist, Charles Tucker on a project in which they seek to construct a quantifiable “systems-network” by which to analyze the subject and conceptual orientation of art-works. In 2012, he began working with the artist Lidija Slavkovic on a series of projects under the title “An Ambition”. These focus on the question of “what do images signify?” They have produced an incomplete text curated two exhibitions.

Art Forum is a series of lectures and presentations by artists, critics, museum directors, art historians, and curators. Through exposing students to the experiences of international artists and members of the global arts community, this course intends to introduce students to the creative process, different philosophies of art, and the role of art in private and public life