David Cohen is an American art critic, art historian, curator and publisher. He is the editor of artcritical.com, which he founded in 2001.[1] Cohen is also the organizer and moderator of The Review Panel, an ongoing public discussion forum which he launched in 2004, and has been hosted by the National Academy Museum and School[2] and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[3] He teaches at Pratt Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Fashion Institute of Technology and other institutions.
Career
editIn the decade before he moved to New York City Cohen pursued a career as a fine arts journalist in his native London where he wrote for such publications as Art Monthly,[4] Burlington Magazine[5] and Modern Painters,[6] as well as newspapers, including The Independent and the New Statesman.[7] In 2000 he immigrated to the United States, and became a citizen there in 2008.
From 2003-08 Cohen served as art critic and contributing editor at The New York Sun.[8] From 2001 to 2010 Cohen worked at the New York Studio School as its Gallery Director,[9] and organized over forty exhibitions of artists including Thomas Nozkowski, Rackstraw Downes, John Newman, Pat Steir, Dorothea Rockburne, Merlin James and William Tucker.[10] At the school he featured regularly as a speaker in the public Evening Lecture program, conducting interviews with leading art critics and art historians in a series titled “The Craft of Criticism” where guests included Peter Schjeldahl, Michael Kimmelman, Michael Fried, Rosalind E. Krauss, Svetlana Alpers, Linda Nochlin, Arthur Danto, Mark Stevens, Roberta Smith, Jerry Saltz and Robert Storr.[11] Many of the interviewees in this series later appeared on The Review Panel.
Publications
edit- Henry Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris. London: Lund Humphries; New York: Overlook Press, 1993.[12]
- Jock McFadyen: A Book about a Painter. London: Lund Humphries, 2001.[13]
- Alex Katz Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art, 2005.[14]
- Serban Savu (co-author Rozalinda Borcila). Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2011.
References
edit- ^ Raphael Rubinstein, "Front Page," Art in America, January 2005
- ^ "National Academy Museum and School page for The Review Panel". Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
- ^ Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts page for The Review Panel
- ^ Author listing at Art Monthly
- ^ Issue archive at Burlington Magazine,
- ^ "Letter from New York Archived 2014-03-29 at archive.today," Blunt Edge, The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation, 2001
- ^ Joan Waltemath, "In Conversation: David Cohen with Joan Waltemath," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2010. See also "In search of a forgotten dream," New Statesman, 2001
- ^ Author index at the New York Sun
- ^ Faculty listing at the New York Studio School Archived 2010-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mario Naves, "Art Diary," New York Observer, February 3, 2003. See also the New York Studio School gallery exhibition listings for Thomas Nozkowski, Rackstraw Downes Archived 2014-03-29 at archive.today, John Newman Archived 2014-03-29 at archive.today, Pat Steir, Dorothea Rockburne Archived November 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Merlin James Archived 2014-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, and William Tucker Archived 2014-03-29 at archive.today
- ^ Media release Archived 2014-03-29 at archive.today, New York Studio School, 2010
- ^ Listing at Henry Moore Foundation
- ^ Google Books listing
- ^ Google Books listing