Hilton Als
Hilton Als is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 2017. His books include "The Women," and "White Girls." His latest book, "I Don't Remember," will be published in March 2027. As a curator his work includes "Alice Neel: Uptown" (2017), "God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin" (2019), both at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, and "Joan Didion: What She Means" at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2023. He is a Teaching Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
The New Yorker critic on where we stand
Join us for a conversation with one of America’s most celebrated and influential cultural critics, Hilton Als, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, curator, and longtime writer for The New Yorker.
For three decades, Hilton Als has been a guiding light for understanding art, performance, and the cultural moment in which we find ourselves, making vivid and lasting a full spectrum of meanings refracted through our histories of race, aesthetics, gender, sexuality, and identity.
Als will be joined in conversation by UChicago’s Rachel Cohen, an award-winning essayist and critic, to explore the work of artists and curators within a culture and in dialogue with its images, memories, and language, especially their role in mending the fabric that connects individual and collective meaning in real time, in difficult times.
Speaker(s): Hilton Als and Rachel Cohen