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Jun 1, 2024 · Things that were so good you needed to take a minute. He was the leading art critic of his generation — first at the Village Voice and then, starting in 1998, the New Yorker — but he was ...
Jun 1, 2024 · The notion of crisis in its various manifestations—war, illness, addiction—appears throughout The Art of Dying, a collection of Schjeldahl’s final assignments for the New Yorker after his lung cancer diagnosis in 2019.
1 day ago · (So too did Peter Schjeldahl, who only just seemed to get rolling as a critic at like 40, I think. His constant engagement in ideas and art and writing was an inspiration. His constant engagement in ideas and art and writing was an inspiration.
Jun 1, 2024 · From The Left. When Peter was diagnosed with cancer three years later, I assumed, with hindsight, that something had already been happening in his body that affected his emotional state. But of course, at the time, I had no way of knowing this (and still don’t). So how was I to respond?
Jun 19, 2024 · He leaves behind a remarkable body of work that, in the words of the critic Peter Schjeldahl, “live on as a residual pressure, as tough as nails, in the minds of anyone who has cared or will care...
Jun 11, 2024 · The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Jun 6, 2024 · In his review of the 2001 Eakins retrospective, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl evocatively writes that despite the fact that the “catalogue essays are quaintly reticent about Eakins’s...
