Press image: http://tmm.chicagodistributioncenter.com/IsbnImages/9780226333151.jpgThe University of Chicago Press + Artbook / D.A.P. @ Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel invite you to celebrate the publication of 25 Women: Essays on Their Art and for a discussion with author Dave Hickey introduced by Dr. Julia Friedman.Calloused, insightful, cantankerous or illuminating Dave Hickey’s writing does nothing if not illicit a visceral response. On the heels of his recently published collection of essays 25 Women: Essays on Their Art (2016, University of Chicago Press) and to celebrate the landmark exhibition Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture By Women 1947-2016, Artbook and Hauser Wirth & Schimmel are pleased to welcome Dave Hickey Thursday, May 12 at 7pm for a discussion of 25 Women with an introduction by Dr. Julia Friedman and book signing to follow.More than a collection of essays, 25 Women constitutes a body of work that reflects Hickey’s deep and prolonged engagement with influential contemporary artists including Roni Horn, Mary Heilmann and Revolution in the Making artist Lynda Benglis. With his trademark wit and raucous eloquence, Hickey’s writing cuts to the heart of deciphering the creative process, questioning institutional accountability and criticism’s role in generating thought provoking discussion through controversy.“…I am an adept of difficulty,” Hickey writes in his introduction. “I love the mystery of gazing across the craquelure of gender gaps that still deploy themselves like canyons across our provisional utopia.” 25 Women: Essays on Their Art crystalizes that gaze into a shimmering collection of writing by a critic who has spent his 50-year career in constant conversation with women.