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Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl was The New Yorker’s longtime art critic until his death, in 2022, at the age of eighty. He joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1998.

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3 picks · 1998–2020

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Edward Hopper and American Solitude
the art world ·

Pandemic or not, the artist’s masterly paintings explore conditions of aloneness as proof of belonging, Peter Schjeldahl writes.

Those Nasty Brits
the art world ·

Peter Schjeldahl on the controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum’s “Sensation” exhibit, whose irreverent art works enraged Mayor Giuliani.

A Fine Rawness
the art world ·

Her photographs urged us to make public art out of formerly private, off-limits experience, Peter Schjeldahl writes.