Lecture by guest speaker Claire Bishop on Feb. 17, 2026, at Lazarus Auditorium in the MICA Fred Lazarus IV Center. This event is a part of MICA's Graduate Studies Interdisciplinary Speaker Series and Bicentennial Celebration. Reception to follow. Claire Bishop is an art critic and historian based in New York at CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012, winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism), a book of conversations with the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020), and Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso, 2024, shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award). She is a a Contributing Editor of Artforum, a Guggenheim Fellow (2024), and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages.