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| Blake Gopnik | |
|---|---|
 2011 portrait of Gopnik by Carole Freeman | |
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Occupation | Art critic |
| Notable work | Warhol |
| Website | blakegopnik |
Blake Gopnik (born 1963) is an American art critic who has lived in New York City since 2011. He previously spent a decade as chief art critic of The Washington Post, prior to which he was an arts editor and critic in Canada. He has a doctorate in art history from Oxford University. He is the author of Warhol, a biography of the American artist Andy Warhol.
Early life and education
Gopnik was born in Philadelphia, in 1963, to Irwin and Myrna Gopnik, with whom he moved to Montreal as a child. He and his five siblings—Berkeley psychologist Alison, writer Adam, oceanographer Morgan, archeologist Hilary, and Melissa Gopnik, who manages a nonprofit—grew up in Moshe Safdie's brutalist housing community, Habitat 67.
Gopnik was educated in French at the Académie Michèle-Provost and then trained as a commercial photographer. He studied at McGill University in Montreal, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in medieval studies, specializing in Vulgate and medieval Latin. In 1994, he completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford on realism in Renaissance painting and the philosophy of representation.
Career
After receiving his doctorate, Gopnik returned to Canada, where he held minor academic jobs, before switching to journalism. In 1995, he became the editor-in-chief of Insite, an architecture and design magazine, and was later hired as the fine arts editor at The Globe and Mail. In 1998, he became the Globe's art critic. From 2000 to 2010, Gopnik worked at The Washington Post as chief art critic. He wrote more than 500 articles about art, ranging from China's terracotta warriors to Andy Warhol's work.
In 2011, Gopnik was hired as the art and design critic at Newsweek magazine and the Daily Beast website. He is also a contributor to The New York Times.
In 2020, he published a comprehensive biography of Andy Warhol, Warhol, through HarperCollins.
Personal life
Gopnik is married to artist Lucy Hogg; they have one son.
Bibliography
- Warhol. New York: Ecco. 2020. ISBN 978-0-06-229839-3.
References
- "Wolfson College, Oxford". www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on January 14, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- Gopnik, Blake (December 1, 2010). "National Portrait Gallery bows to censors, withdraws Wojnarowicz video on gay love". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on May 29, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ "Blake Gopnik Author". Archived from the original on July 3, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
- "Canceled: Warhol: Blake Gopnik and Jerry Saltz". The New York Public Library. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- "BrutalistDC in the New York Times". May 5, 2017. Archived from the original on December 18, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- Gendall, John (June 21, 2017). "What It Was Like to Live Inside Habitat 67". Architectural Digest. Archived from the original on February 24, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 cover bio
- Gopnik, Blake (January 28, 2011). "New Orleans Murder Sites Photographed by Deborah Luster". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on October 12, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
- Gopnik, Blake (May 18, 2012). "Philadelphia's Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- Gopnik, Blake (November 3, 2013). "Sunday Review – Opinion: In Praise of Art Forgeries". The New York Times. New York. p. SR5. Archived from the original on January 5, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- Rozalia Jovanovic (August 7, 2013). "Blake Gopnik's Andy Warhol Book Bought by HarperCollins Imprint Ecco". artinfo.com. Louise Blouin Media. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- Gopnik, Blake (September 3, 2013). "Museums Cure ADD – At the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Titian asks 'What's the rush?'". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.