A Critic’s Life: Harold Rosenberg

Independent curator and writer Debra Bricker Balken has organized award-winning exhibitions on subject relating to American modernism and contemporary for major museums internationally. Her work on Philip Guston includes an exhibition of Philip Guston’s Poem-Pictures, a book and related exhibition on Philip Guston’s Poor Richard, and most recently, her biography Harold Rosenberg, A Critic’s Life where Guston is discussed at length. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Clark Art Institute, the Dedalus Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and an Art Writer’s grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. She is presently working as lead curator on Americans in Paris, Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 for the Grey Art Gallery at NYU.

New York-based art critic Eleanor Heartney is the author of numerous books on contemporary art. Heartney is a Contributing Editor for Art in America and has written extensively for publications including Artnews, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is author of several noteworthy books about art, such as Art & Today (2008), Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2004), co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (2007) (winner of the Susan Koppelman Award), and most recently, Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019). She is an Editor-at-Large for the Rail.