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July 24, 2009 / Criticism is an endeavour that turns on a set of intimacies: between the writer and the work, the writer and the artist, the writer and the reader, and the writer and his- or herself. In this talk, Tom Morton maps these intimacies and their impact on the critic’s practice.

This talk was originally presented on February 28, 2009, as part of Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, a forum and month long speaker series organized with Artspeak.

Tom Morton is a writer, critic, and curator in London, UK. He is currently a curator at The Hayward Gallery, London, where he has recently organized exhibitions by Cyprien Gaillard, Guido van der Werve, and Tim Lee. He was previously curator at Cubitt Gallery, London. Morton has been Contributing Editor of Frieze magazine since 2003 and writes regularly for Bidoun and Metropolis M. He is the author of numerous exhibition catalogue essays on artists including Roger Hiorns, Erik van Lieshout, Pierre Huyghe, Glenn Brown, Andro Wekua, and Victor Man.