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Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 19:00 hrs

The surrealist work of the Halmstad Group is exhibited at Millesgården this autumn. Also, this year one of Sweden’s most important lyrical modernists – Erik Lindegren – would have turned 100. Lindegren was working closely with the Swedish surrealists and he published 38 poems about their paintings in a book on the Halmstad Group that came out in 1947.

Sophie Allgårdh, editor of Paletten, will discuss the connections between visual and literary art with literature scholar Daniel Pedersen and publisher Ingmar Simonsson, on account of the newly released volume of Erik Lindegren’s collected poems. This event is held in Swedish.

A bar serving light food will be open from 18:30.

Address: Konstnärsklubben, 2nd floor, Smålandsgatan 7, Stockholm. Ring door bell marked ”Konstnärsklubben”.

The evening is arranged by the Swedish Art Critics Association in collaboration with the Tuesday Club – the meeting place for artists at Konstnärshuset (the Artists’ House) on the first Tuesday of every month.

Saturday, 16 October, 15:00 – 17:00 hrs.
The Auditorium of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm

Cultural criticism in daily newspapers has been hotly debated as of late, but the debate has mostly been about literary criticism. Now we turn to art.

Did the newspapers abandon what used to be referred to as a critical mission, in favor of reports and interviews? Does it even make sense anymore to speak of serious cultural criticism, or has the celebrity-and-event-orientation of entertainment journalism invaded cultural coverage in general and art criticism in particular?

Several dailies in the country have new cultural chief editors. How do they view these questions? Is visual art, in all its forms and narratives, of interest to them when they decide what to cover? What role do they want art criticism to play in their cultural pages? How do they determine what to cover?

The Swedish Art Critics Association organizes a talk on art coverage and art criticism in the dailies’ cultural pages with the cultural chief editors of four newspapers.

Participants:
Lisa Irenius, Upsala Nya Tidning
Karin Olsson, Expressen
Kaj Schueler, Svenska Dagbladet
Björn Wiman, Dagens Nyheter

Moderators: Cristina Karlstam, art critic and board member, and Christian Chambert, chairman of the Swedish Art Critics Association

Free admission. The event is held in Swedish.

F12 and Café Mejan at Fredsgatan 12 will be open for a get-together.