Michael Newman
Professional Title: Professor of Fine Arts
Education: Degrees in Literature and Art History, and PhD in Philosophy from the Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
Publications:
- Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) (Afterall and MIT, 2006)
- Jeff Wall: Works and Writings (Poligrafa, 2007)
- Price, Seth (JRP Ringier, 2010)
Fun Facts: In philosophy, I have published essays on Kant, Nietzsche, Derrida, Levinas, and Blanchot. I am currently working on books on appropriation, and on the trace in drawing and philosophy.
Michael Newman is Associate Professor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College in the University of London. An essay on drawing was included in The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act (Tate and The Drawing Center, 2003). He has curated several exhibitions, including “Tacita Dean” at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2000), on whom his essays have been published by Tate Britain (2001) and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003). He co-edited the volume of essays Re-Writing Conceptual Art (Reaktion Books, 1999).