MacDowell Salon with Jeremy Eichler and Sebastian Smee
Please join us on Tuesday, June 13th at 6:30pm for an intimate salon at the home of MacDowell board member and Fellow Jeannie Suk Gersen ('12) with readings and conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee ('21) and chief classical music critic of the Boston Globe Jeremy Eichler ('18), drinks, and hors d'oeuvres. We look forward to seeing you at this inaugural celebration as we welcome new MacDowell Executive Director Chiwoniso Kaitano to our supporters in the Greater Boston region. Detailed information on the address and parking will be sent after we confirm your attendance.
Please contact Senior Manager of Special Events, Brett Evan Solomon at events@macdowell.org or 212-535-9690 for more information.
Learn About Our Fellows
Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post. He has previously worked for the Boston Globe and for newspapers and magazines in the U.S., the UK, and Australia. He won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2011. He was born in Australia and has lived in Boston since 2008. While at MacDowell he worked on the final stages of his book about the experiences of the impressionist painters Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet during the siege of Paris and the Commune of 1870-71. The book will be published by Norton. His previous book, The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (Random House), focused (in one of its four chapters) on some of the same artists in the 1860s.
Jeremy Eichler is an award-winning critic, essayist, and cultural historian. A Public Scholar grantee of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is the author of a forthcoming book on music, war, and cultural memory. Titled Time’s Echo, it will be published in fall 2023 by Alfred A. Knopf in North America and Faber in the U.K. Since 2006, he has served as chief classical music critic of the Boston Globe. Previously, Eichler worked as a music critic for the New York Times (2003-2006) and his writing has appeared in many other national publications including the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Nation, and the Washington Post. His criticism has been recognized with an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award, and his research has been supported by fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and MacDowell. Eichler earned his BA at Brown University and his PhD in European history at Columbia University. He is a frequent guest speaker and previously taught at Brandeis University. Currently a local affiliate of Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, he lives with his family in Boston.