Leah Ollman—editor for Art in America, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Scripps alumna—will offer insight on “The Criticism of Art and the Art of Criticism,” on Tuesday, October 28, at noon in the Hampton Room of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons on the Scripps College campus. Co-sponsored by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and part of the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy lecture series, this event is free and open to the public. Guests may bring a lunch or purchase one in the Malott Commons Dining Hall prior to the lecture. For additional program information, please call the Malott Commons Office, (909) 607-8508.
Critic, commentator, and arts educator Leah Ollman began her career as intern in the education department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and later at the newly opened Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, where she started her own award-winning quarterly art newsletter, earning praise and endorsement from such prestigious institutions as the Art Museum Association of America and the American Association of Museums.
Soon after, Ollman earned a spot with the San Diego County edition of the Los Angeles Times, where she wrote a weekly visual arts column. When the edition folded in 1992, Ollman was invited to continue with the Los Angeles Times proper, authoring reviews and features on a regular basis, and, in 1997, additionally took on a position of corresponding editor for Art in America. Throughout her career, she has contributed to a variety of publications, written a dozen catalogue essays, and two books, The Photographs of John Brill (2003) and William Kentridge: Weighing…and Wanting (2001). Currently, she is expanding for exhibition her most recent research project, “Camera As Weapon: Photography Between the War.”
Ollman earned her bachelor’s in art history and philosophy from Scripps College and her master’s in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.