Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl was the art critic for The New Yorker for 24 years until his death in 2022. He was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Prior to that, he wrote art criticism for Seven Days and the Village Voice. In 2019, Abrams published his Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings, 1988-2018, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Peter Schjeldahl's Titles

The Art of Dying

"Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)The...

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

Hot Cold Heavy Lightcollects 100 writingssome long, some shortthat taken together forma group portrait of many of the world's most significant...