The Pulitzer-prize winning writer and essayist talks about his love of art and how he reconciles two challenging roles.

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down ... and who did not even know that they were producing art.” In the 1940s, art critic and collector Jean Lipman pointed to folk ...

Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” His first book, “The Women,” was published in 1996. His book “White Girls,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle ...

These are things that are the antithesis of what a thoughtful art critic does.” These changes coincide with a fundamental shift in not just who is making art, but how we view and derive meaning ...