Karen Wilkin

Karen Wilkin is a New York based critic and curator, specializing in 20th century modernism. She has organized exhibitions and written books on Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, David Smith, and Anthony Caro among others. Ms. Wilkin writes regularly for "The New Criterion, Art in ""America,"" ""Hudson"" Review" and "the Wall Street Journal." John Yau has published more than thirty books of poetry, fiction and criticism, and has contributed essays to monographs on Richard Pousette-Dart,...See more

Karen Wilkin is a New York based critic and curator, specializing in 20th century modernism. She has organized exhibitions and written books on Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, David Smith, and Anthony Caro among others. Ms. Wilkin writes regularly for "The New Criterion, Art in ""America,"" ""Hudson"" Review" and "the Wall Street Journal." John Yau has published more than thirty books of poetry, fiction and criticism, and has contributed essays to monographs on Richard Pousette-Dart, Helmut Federle, Morris Graves, Brice Marden, Pat Steir, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. He teaches at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University). Both a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (2006-7), he is currently working on a book on Jasper Johns. See less