Blake Gopnik

Blake Gopnik (born 1963)[1] 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,[2] prior to which he was an arts editor and critic in Canada.[3] He has a doctorate in art history from Oxford University.[4] He is the author of Warhol, a biography of the American artist Andy Warhol.[5]

Blake Gopnik
2011 portrait of Gopnik by Carole Freeman
Born1963 (age 59–60)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
OccupationArt critic
Notable workWarhol
Websiteblakegopnik.com

Personal life

Blake 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.[6][7]

Gopnik is married to the artist Lucy Hogg;[8] they have one son.

Education

Gopnik was educated in French at the Académie Michèle-Provost and then trained as a commercial photographer. He went on to study at McGill University, where he received an honors B.A. in medieval studies, with a specialization 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.[9]

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.[10] 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. He was a pioneer in web video at the Washington Post.[11]

In 2011, Gopnik was hired as the art and design critic at Newsweek magazine and its Daily Beast web site.[12] He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times.[13]

In 2020, he published a comprehensive biography of Andy Warhol through HarperCollins.[14]

Bibliography
  • Warhol. New York: Ecco. 2020. ISBN 978-0-06-229839-3.

References
  1. "Wolfson College, Oxford". www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on January 14, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. "Author". Archived from the original on July 3, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  4. "Canceled: Warhol: Blake Gopnik and Jerry Saltz". The New York Public Library. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  5. "Blake Gopnik". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  6. "BrutalistDC in the New York Times – Brutalist DC". May 5, 2017. Archived from the original on December 18, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 cover bio
  10. 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.
  11. Gopnik, Blake (September 9, 2010). "Exhibit review of Spencer Finch's 'My Business, with the Cloud' at the Corcoran for the Washington Post". Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 29, 2018. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  12. Gopnik, Blake (May 18, 2012). "Philadelphia's Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  13. "Sunday Review – In Praise of Art Forgeries". The New York Times. New York. November 3, 2013. p. SR5. Archived from the original on January 5, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  14. 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.
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