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| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US| nationality = | other_names =| occupation = Art critic| years_active =blakegopnik.com}}| known_for =Warhol (book)>Warhol}}Blake Gopnik (born 1963)WEB,weblink Wolfson College, Oxford, www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk, April 28, 2020, January 14, 2020,weblink live, is an American art critic who has lived in New York City since 2011. He previously spent a decade as chief art critic of The Washington Post,NEWS,weblink National Portrait Gallery bows to censors, withdraws Wojnarowicz video on gay love, Gopnik, Blake, December 1, 2010, The Washington Post, April 12, 2017, 0190-8286, May 29, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170529202741weblink">weblink live, prior to which he was an arts editor and critic in Canada.WEB,weblink Blake Gopnik Author, June 16, 2023, July 3, 2022,weblink live, He has a doctorate in art history from Oxford University.WEB,weblink Canceled: Warhol: Blake Gopnik and Jerry Saltz, The New York Public Library, April 28, 2020, March 8, 2021,weblink live, He is the author of Warhol, a biography of the American artist Andy Warhol.

Early life and education

Gopnik was born in Philadelphia, in 1963, to Irwin and Myrna Gopnik, with whom he moved to Montreal as a child.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} He and his five siblings—Berkeley psychologist Alison, writer Adam, oceanographer Morgan, archeologist Hilary, and Melissa Gopnik, who manages a nonprofit—grew up in Moshe Safdie's brutalist housing community, Habitat 67.WEB,weblink BrutalistDC in the New York Times, May 5, 2017, April 28, 2020, December 18, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20171218075515weblink">weblink live, WEB,weblink What It Was Like to Live Inside Habitat 67, Gendall, John, Architectural Digest, June 21, 2017, April 28, 2020, February 24, 2020,weblink live, Gopnik was educated in French at the Académie Michèle-Provost and then trained as a commercial photographer.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} He studied at McGill University in Montreal, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in medieval studies, specializing in Vulgate and medieval Latin.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} In 1994, he completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford on realism in Renaissance painting and the philosophy of representation.Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. {{ISBN|978-0-241-00338-1}} cover bio

Career

After receiving his doctorate, Gopnik returned to Canada, where he held minor academic jobs, before switching to journalism. In 1995, he became the editor-in-chief of Insite, an architecture and design magazine, and was later hired as the fine arts editor at The Globe and Mail.NEWS,weblink New Orleans Murder Sites Photographed by Deborah Luster, The Daily Beast, January 28, 2011, Gopnik, Blake, June 16, 2023, October 12, 2022,weblink live, In 1998, he became the Globe{{'}}s art critic.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} From 2000 to 2010, Gopnik worked at The Washington Post as chief art critic.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} He wrote more than 500 articles about art, ranging from China's terracotta warriors to Andy Warhol's work.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} In 2011, Gopnik was hired as the art and design critic at Newsweek magazine and the Daily Beast website.NEWS, Gopnik, Blake,weblink Philadelphia's Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light, May 18, 2012, The Daily Beast, April 28, 2020, He is also a contributor to The New York Times.NEWS, Gopnik, Blake, Sunday Review – Opinion: In Praise of Art Forgeries,weblink July 18, 2014, The New York Times, November 3, 2013, New York, SR5, January 5, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140105171928weblink">weblink live, In 2020, he published a comprehensive biography of Andy Warhol, Warhol, through HarperCollins.WEB, Rozalia Jovanovic, Blake Gopnik's Andy Warhol Book Bought by HarperCollins Imprint Ecco,weblink artinfo.com, Louise Blouin Media, July 18, 2014, August 7, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131112234323weblink">weblink November 12, 2013, dead,

Personal life

Gopnik is married to artist Lucy Hogg;NEWS, Museums Cure ADD – At the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Titian asks 'What's the rush?',weblink The Daily Beast, July 18, 2014, September 3, 2013, Gopnik, Blake, November 12, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131112235919weblink">weblink live, they have one son.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Bibliography

• BOOK, Warhol (book), Warhol, Ecco Press, Ecco, 2020, 978-0-06-229839-3, New York,

References

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External links

• {{official|blakegopnik.com}}

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