Nikki Columbus will give a talk on institutional critique as part of the AH  grad seminar Tools for Change :Transforming Institutions. Columbus is a writer and editor based in New York. This past spring, she organized and chaired a series of online forums on building a socially just future in the arts and education, titled “Art • Work • Place: Emergency Sessions,” co-presented with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. She was executive editor at Parkett and previously, an associate editor at Artforum. Between these two editorial posts, she was a curator at Townhouse Gallery, a nonprofit arts space in Cairo.