# Event Details - **Event Name**: Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: A public reading by Rachel Kushner of "A KING ALONE" at Otis College of Art and Design.About this EventA public reading by Rachel Kushner of "A KING ALONE." Rachel Kushner, this year’s Fine Arts Critic-in-Residence at Otis College, will provide a night reading of "A KING ALONE,"  a story published in The New Yorker, based on a real experience by experimental filmmaker James Benning, about a hitchhiker, with references to photographer William Eggleston (A KING ALONE was eventually reprinted in a recent Eggleston catalogue). Rachel Kushner is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Creation Lake, The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, the short story collection The Strange Case of Rachel K, and a book of essays, The Hard Crowd. Creation Lake was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Carol Shields Award. She has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, the Folio Prize, was twice a finalist for both the National Book Award in Fiction and the Booker Prize, and winner of the Prix Médicis étranger. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and Harper’s, and her books have been translated into 29 languages. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/fine-arts-department-critic-in-residence-rachel-kushner/100001984308439960 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Otis College of Art and Design - **lat**: 33.9566849 - **long**: -118.4171575 - **full address**: Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1ffa641c0ae1e84deb722f45c56d6788b813c0af8a87143cc49786e518a74ac5-rimg-w480-h640-dc161615-gmir.jpg?v=1772725359 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner being held? - **A:** Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner takes place on Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner? - **A:** Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner is organized by Otis College of Art and Design. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Fine Arts Department Critic in Residence: Rachel Kushner", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1ffa641c0ae1e84deb722f45c56d6788b813c0af8a87143cc49786e518a74ac5-rimg-w480-h640-dc161615-gmir.jpg?v=1772725359", "startDate": "2026-04-14T19:00:00-07:00", "endDate": "2026-04-14T21:00:00-07:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/fine-arts-department-critic-in-residence-rachel-kushner/100001984308439960", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Otis College of Art and Design", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "9045 Lincoln Boulevard", "postalCode": "90045", "addressLocality": "Los Angeles", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "33.9566849", "longitude": "-118.4171575" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "A public reading by Rachel Kushner of \"A KING ALONE\" at Otis College of Art and Design.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-14T21:00:00-07:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/fine-arts-department-critic-in-residence-rachel-kushner/100001984308439960" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/fine-arts-department-critic-in-residence-rachel-kushner/100001984308439960", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Otis College of Art and Design", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/otis-college-of-art-and-design/19077387", "description": "Established in 1918 as Los Angeles’ first professional school of the arts, Otis College of Art and Design is a non-profit 501(c)3 institution and a national leader in art and design education. 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