Michael Brenson is an art critic and art historian. He is the artistic director of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation. He was an art critic for The New York Times from 1982–1991. He is a Getty Scholar, Guggenheim Fellow and Clark Fellow, and the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
Books in order of publication:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Recent Sculpture – 1993
Culture in Action: A Public Art Program of Sculpture Chicago – 1995
A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection – 1996
David Smith: Medals For Dishonor – 1997
Maya Lin: Topologies – 1998
Visionaries and Outcasts: The Nea, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America -2001
The New Gatekeepers: Emerging Challenges to Free Expression in the Arts – 2004
Daniel Joseph Martinez: A Life of Disobedience – 2009
Corin Hewitt: Weavings: Performance No. 2 – 2009
Terry Adkins: The Smooth, the Cut, and the Assembled – 2018
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