Wayne Koestenbaum (b. 1958, U.S.) is a poet, critic, novelist, artist and performer. He has published twenty books, including Figure It Out (Soft Skull Press, 2020), Camp Marmalade (Nightboat Books, 2018), My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (University of California Press, 2012), Humiliation (Picador, 2011), Hotel Theory (Soft Skull Press, 2011), Circus (Soft Skull Press, 2004), Andy Warhol (Open Road Media, 2001), Jackie Under My Skin (Plume, 1995), and The Queen’s Throat (Poseidon Press, 1993), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His first collection of short fiction, The Cheerful Scapegoat, will be published in March 2021 by Semiotext(e). His literary archive is at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Koestenbaum is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He currently lives and works in New York. 

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The Graduate Art Seminar is a forum for graduate students and members of the ArtCenter community to enter into dialog with internationally recognized artists, critics, and art historians. The Seminar is a core component of ArtCenter's Graduate Art program. The Seminar is also free and open to the public.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.