Hilton Als Gives Public Lecture

Hilton Als

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Lecture Hall, 7:30pm

“I Only Want You to Love Me: Diane Arbus, New York, and the Magic Kingdom”

Hilton Als is the Spring 2007 Fellow in SFAI’s Center for Word, Text, and Image. Als is a writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, and previously was photo editor and staff writer for The Village Voice, and editor-at-large at Vibe magazine. His work has also appeared in The Nation. He has written film scripts for Swoon and Looking for Langston, and was editor of the catalogue for the Whitney Museum exhibition Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, (November 1994–March 1995). His first book, The Women, a meditation on gender and race and their roles in the forging of personal identity, was published in 1996. He co-edited (with Darryl Turner) White Noise: The Eminem Collection and is the co-writer (with Turner) of Don’t Explain, a screenplay being produced by Christine Vachon at Killer Films. For this talk, he’ll discuss photographer Diane Arbus and how her relationship to New York City is reflected in her work and legend.