Sean Scully in Conversation with John Yau via Hyperallergic, 5 November

14 October 2025

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On 5 November, poet, critic, and curator John Yau will sit down with internationally acclaimed artist Sean Scully for a conversation about his decades-long career, recent work, and advice for young artists. This event will be open to Hyperallergic members.

Sean Scully RA (born June 30, 1945) is an Irish-born, American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and photographer. Moving from London to New York in 1975, Scully shifted the paradigm in abstraction from Minimalism to emotional abstraction in painting, abandoning the reduced vocabulary of the former in favor of a return to metaphor and spirituality in art. John Yau is an award-winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism, as well as monographs on the work of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and A. R. Pennk.

Wednesday, 5 November, 2 – 3pm (ET)
All Hyperallergic Members are welcome to register for this free event.

Find out more via Hyperallergic.

Image: Portrait of Sean Scully at Philadelphia Museum of Art © Sean Scully, Courtesy the Artist, Photography by Joseph Hu