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Pulitzer Prize winning writer and cultural critic Hilton Als, chief theater
critic for The New Yorker, presents the Gail Silver Memorial Lecture.
Limited seating; reservations required. Free.
Students: RISD Student reservations are available starting 10/6. Check your
email for the registration link or email jlangfor@risd.edu
Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989. He became a staff
writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Before
coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an
editor-at-large at Vibe. Als’ most recent book, White Girls, a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014, discusses various narratives of
race and gender. In 2017 Als won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 2015, he
collaborated with the artist Celia Paul to create “Desdemona for Celia by
Hilton,” an exhibition for the Metropolitan Opera’s Gallery Met. In 2016, his
debut art show “One Man Show: Holly, Candy, Bobbie and the Rest” opened
at the Artist’s Institute. Als was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
degree from RISD in 2016. In 2017 he curated “Alice Neel, Uptown” at the
David Zwirner Gallery in New York City. Als is an associate professor of
writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale
University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.