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Article: Renowned art critic to speak.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Art critic and theorist Dave Hickey will talk about ``The Unnecessary Death of the Beaux-Arts Tradition'' in a free lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday in 177 Lawrence Hall at the University of Oregon.
Hickey is the author "The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty," which one reviewer described as "an eye-popping meditation on the fate of beauty in the 20th century. An immensely important little book."
Hickey curated the recent Site Santa Fe Biennial, "Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism," which the Los Angeles Times praised as "an exhibition designed to make you swoon. ... one of those ...