Crit Class Resources - Winter 2025

Schedule of 5 Minute Talks

  • Class 3

  • Class 6

  • Class 9

5 Minute Talk – Parameters and Guidelines

  • Run a timer as you talk – try to keep your presentation to as close to 5 minutes as possible.

  • Your topic must have “status” – meaning that someone who is significant has decided that your topic is significant enough to be exhibited, discussed, reviewed, etc. Everything below the “Gallery Listings” section on this page has status. Showing at major museums or galleries connotes status. So does being reviewed in major publications or having scholarly work written about it. If you’re not sure about the status of a potential topic, reach out to me.

  • Your topic must connect back to your work – it must reflect either the work you are doing presently or are giving serious consideration to doing. Be sure to mention why or how the work you have chosen to discuss matters to you.

  • Your topic should be a single image. Most of what you say should pertain to the specifics of that image or generalities that can be derived from it. You may include up to 4 additional supplementary images that are used to clarify, compare, or extend, but the primary points you make should all come from the main image.

  • What you say about your topic should be personal – based on the thoughts that enter your mind while you are looking at your chosen image. Sometimes it is necessary to provide some historical or other context; however, try to keep this to a minimum. This is not about doing research as much as it is an exercise in looking and thinking while you look, and bringing those thoughts back to your work.

Sources: Top NYC Photography Galleries

  • Yossi Milo

  • Howard Greenberg

  • Bruce Silverstein

  • Yancey Richardson

  • Robert Mann

  • Edwynn Houk

  • Deborah Bell

  • Gittermann

Sources: Newspapers, Photography/Art Periodicals:

  • NY Times

  • Aperture

  • British Journal of Photography

  • Artforum

  • Art in America

  • Frieze

  • Art News

  • Blind Spot

Sources: Major Art and Photography Publishers:

  • Museum and Major University publications

  • Assouline

  • Aperture

  • Steidl

  • Mack

  • Damiani

  • Scalo

  • Abrams

  • Prestel

  • Hatje Kantz

  • Powerhouse

  • Phaidon

  • Lustrum

  • Taschen

  • Nazreali Press

Sources: Top NYC Galleries in Chelsea/Midtown that sometimes show photography:

  • David Zwirner

  • Pace

  • Matthew Marks

  • Jack Shainman

  • Sikkema Jenkins

  • Luhring Augustine

  • Barbara Gladstone

  • Sean Kelley

  • 303

  • Gagosian

  • Hauser and Wirth

  • Lisson

  • Petzel

  • Marian Goodman

  • Paul Kasmin

  • Tanya Bonakdar

  • Marianne Boesky

  • Cheim and Read

  • Paula Cooper

Sources: Major Museums

  • MoMA

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Whitney

  • Guggenheim

  • New Museum

  • Tate/Tate Modern