Hilton Als will lecture on the photographer, Diane Arbus in Manhattan. This is an Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture sponsored by the Art Department.

Hilton Als is known best as an award-winning journalist, critic, and curator. He has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1994. Previously, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and editor-at-large at Vibe. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing (2022), the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2017), Yale’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prize (2016), the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism (2002-03), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000). His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His book, White Girls, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award. He published My Pinup in 2022 and in 2024 he edited God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin for the centenary of Baldwin’s birth. He is currently a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also taught at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and the Yale School of Drama.

This event is open to the public.