Robert Storr: A Life in Art Criticism and Curation

Robert Storr, born in 1949 and based in New York, is a painter, art historian, curator, and educator. He began his critical writing for Art in America, establishing himself as an international critic, and later collaborated with artpress, a relationship that continues. From 1990 to 2002, he served as Senior Curator in the Department of Sculpture and Paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organizing major retrospectives of Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, and Max Beckmann. In 2007, he was the Director of the Venice Biennale, which he titled "Thinking with the Senses, Feeling with the Mind," articulating his views on the relationship between politics and aesthetics. He currently teaches painting at the Yale University School of Art. Storr is the author of a monumental study on Louise Bourgeois and is respected on both sides of the Atlantic. A recent interview from September 2017 captures his alert mind. The book "Les grands entretiens: Robert Storr" features interviews by Eleanor Heartney, Jean-Hubert Martin, Catherine Millet, and Alfred Pacquement, with a preface by Pacquement.