Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) has provided a forum for visual artists in New York City for over 50 years and is among the longest running, critically acclaimed panel series in art history. It has offered talks featuring more than 9,000 artists and a significant number of art critics, historians, gallery directors, and curators.
Speakers who have participated include Will Barnet, Louise Bourgeois, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Guerrilla Girls, Hilton Kramer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marisol, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Jerry Saltz, David Salle, Irving Sandler, Nancy Spero, Calvin Tomkins, and Kehinde Wiley. ATOA’s historic archive of papers, photographs, and over 1,100 recordings of panels and dialogues are in the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and New York City
ATOA engaged Bow Bridge in 2024 to help promote their 50th anniversary celebrations.
https://www.atoanyc.org/history
Top Photograph: Website Logo Inset Photograph: Audience at critics panel, SoHo, New York, circa 1984. Photo courtesy of ATOA IMAGE FROM ATOA WEBSITE