Speaking

2019

Moderator for Contemporary Art and Social Responsibility with Liza Lou, Joyce Cutler-Shaw Dialogues in Art & Architecture at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in San Diego, April 4 and 25

Writing an Artist’s Statement, a Lunch and Learn hosted by the Shreveport Regional Arts Council, March 8, 2019

Building a Professional Portfolio, a Lunch and Learn hosted by the Shreveport Regional Arts Council, March 8, 2019

2018

A Conversation with Jennifer Spencer of The Artist Portrait Project: A Photographic Memoir of Portraits Sessions with San Diego Artists 2006-2016 at The Book Catapult, September 19

Critics & Collectors Panel at Artspace in Shreveport, LA, September 12

Moderator for the Joyce Cutler-Shaw Dialogues in Art & Architecture at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in San Diego, May 9

“Real Life, Ideal Life: Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, and George Inness in the 1870s and 1880s,” for the Guest Lecture and Tour Series at The San Diego Museum of Art, Apr. 20

2017

Moderator for the Joyce Cutler-Shaw Dialogues in Art & Architecture at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in San Diego, Feb. 7, Mar.7 and Apr. 4

2015

Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture, at the Herron School of Art + Design, Jan. 8

2014

Moderator for Placemaking: Public Arts’s Role in Creating Community, a forum on public art, San Diego Mesa College, Oct. 30

“Conversations on Criticism: The Future of Intelligent Writing in the Arts,” symposium on this theme with national variety of critics and arts professionals; served as organizer, moderator and keynote speaker, Artspace, Shreveport, Louisiana, Aug. 6 – 8

Moderated and organized “Meet the Artists,” from The San Diego Foundation in support of the Creative Catalyst Program grantees, Feb. 20

2013

“The Art of Art Criticism,” for Artful Conversations at the San Diego Public Library, Dec. 10

“A Framework for Judgment: Criticism in Architecture and the Visual Arts,” with Christopher Hawthorne and Leah Ollman, moderated by Cathryn Copper, Nov. 1

“The Future of Art Criticism,” for the Gotthelf Art Gallery Kick Off Event, Jul.

2012

VIDEO: “Arts Show: Public Art” with guest host Pat Launer, Iris Strauss, and Joyce Cutler Shaw for KPBS News, May 3

“Arts Journalism In The Age of the HuffingtonPost,” with Kimberly Brooks and John Seed at Mt. San Jacinto College, Mar. 29

2011

a talk on the role of the art critic and presentation of prizes in juried exhibition, “Impromptu,” Artspace, Shreveport, Louisiana, Apr. 2

“What Women Want!” Group Exhibition at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego for the Feminist Image Group (FIG)

2010

“Question and Answer: Robert Pincus with Deloss McGraw,” a discussion with Deloss McGraw on ‘Recent Paintings in Response to Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum at the William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad, Nov. 20

“Book Review Panel,” San Diego County Library Book Festival, Oct. 9

“Accordance of Disciplines: Artist Ruben Ochoa and Architect Teddy Cruz with Art Critic, Robert Pincus, Moderator,” The Bronowski Art & Science Forum, La Jolla, Oct. 6

“The Cultural Scene,” sponsered by Beth Israel of San Diego, Apr. 15

“Inside the World of the Outsider Artist,” panel, San Diego Repertory Theater, Oct. 3

“Conversations on Beauty: Beauty for Change,” panel, San Diego Museum of Art, Jun. 22

2000’s

“San Diego Museum of Art Evening Encounters: Judy Chicago,” a lecture at the Old Globe Theater, May 18, 2009

“Snapshots: Changing Perspectives in the San Diego Art Scene,” a panel atArt Produce Gallery, Feb. 21, 2009

“Art Museum Night at Permanent Collection,” a panel at Mo’olelo at 10th Avenue Theater in San Diego, Mar. 1, 2008

“Collectors on Collecting,” host and interviewer for panel at the San Diego Museum of Art, Nov. 16, 2006

“Pleasures of Being a Generalist: Two Decades as an Art Critic,” a lecture sponsored by the Art & Science Forum at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, Jun. 1, 2006

“Why I Still Do What I Do – A Quarter Century As An Art Critic,” a lecture at the San Diego Museum of Art, Feb. 18, 2005

“The State of Public Art in San Diego,” a lecture sponsored by the Friends of the Stuart Collection, at the University of California in San Diego, September 17, 2004

“Beyond Border Art” with Betti-Sue Hertz, Mark Quint, and Ruben Ortiz-Torres for the UCSD’s Open Studios, 2002

“Anatomy of Taste: One Critic’s Take on Art Past and Present,” a lecture for The Wednesday Club, San Diego, January 20, 2002

1990’s

“Life and Death on a Grand Scale: The Art of Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz,” a lecture at the Nevada Museum of Art, May 6, 1999

“The Making of Manuel Neri,” a lecture at the Orange County Museum of Art, Feb. 17, 1997

“A Celebration of Manuel Neri’s Work,” moderated a conversation with Manuel Neri and Nathan Oliveira at the San Jose Museum of Art, Sept. 7, 1997

“Stories in Sculpture: Four Decades of the Art of Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz,” a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Nov. 6, 1994

“On a Scale That Competes with the World: The Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz,” a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Feb. 19, 1991

“Twice Born Images: The Art of John Baldessari,” a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, May 13, 1990

“‘Quality Material …’: Duchamp Disseminated in the Sixties and Seventies,” a lecture at the Santa Monica Public Library, Dec. 6, 1990

1980’s

“Art and Criticism: Who Influences Whom,” a lecture at Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Oct. 28, 1989

“Public Art,” a lecture the National Association of Schools of Art and Design Convention in San Diego, Oct. 20, 1988

“Populism in the Fine Arts,” co-organizer and moderator, symposium funded by National Endowment for the Arts at University of Southern California, Feb. 27, 1988

“Speaking of the Arts: Artists, Patrons, Critics,” a televised lecture with Edward Albee and Wayne Thiebaud, filmed at San Diego State University, Feb. 28, 1987

“Art as Artifact: The Rise of Historicism in Southern California Painting and Sculpture,” a lecture, Timken Museum of Art, Nov. 9, 1985 and the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Nov. 19, 1985

“Contemporary Art Criticism: Theory and Practice,” a lecture at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Jul. 7, 1984

“New Image Art and Its Sources in Popular Culture,” a lecture for Collecting Contemporary Art: Practical, Legal and Philosophical Aspects, a symposium at the University of California in Los Angeles, Apr. 24, 1982

“Edward Kienholz: Assemblages and Tableaux, 1959-1982,” a lecture at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in Newport Beach, Ca., Apr.18, 1982

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