Michael Kimmelman

Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times . He is now based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (September 2008)

From the Review

September 25, 2008: The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds'

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

October 25, 2007: The Last Act

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

June 14, 2007: A Hero of Our Time

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman

August 10, 2006: All in the Family

Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971 by Stephen Walsh

August 11, 2005: The Dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright by Ada Louise Huxtable

March 24, 2005: The Undefeated

William Kapell Edition by William Kapell

November 4, 2004: William Kapell Died (letter)

October 7, 2004: Lone Star

Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana

May 27, 2004: The Cold War over the Arts

The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War by David Caute

November 20, 2003: The Saint

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art by Sybil Gordon Kantor

June 12, 2003: Piano Portraits

Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer translated by Richard Stokes

Mozart Piano Sonatas, K. 310, K. 311, and K. 533/494; Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397 Alfred Brendel, pianist

Alfred Brendel Live in Salzburg Alfred Brendel, pianist

Vladimir de Pachmann: A Piano Virtuoso's Life and Art by Mark Mitchell

Pachmann, the Mythic Pianist: 1907–1927 Recordings

Dreizehn Engel/Thirteen Angels: Poems by Alfred Brendel; Etchings, Drawings, and Sculptures by George Nama Catalog of the exhibition edited by Elisabeth Kashey

November 7, 2002: Music, Maestro, Please!

The Letters of Arturo Toscanini compiled, edited, and translated from the Italian by Harvey Sachs

Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years by Mortimer H. Frank

May 23, 2002: The Keys to Beethoven

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion by Charles Rosen

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Piano Music a recording by Charles Rosen

November 1, 2001: Wandering Minstrel

Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations by Bruno Monsaingeon,translated from the French by Stewart Spencer

Richter the Enigma a film by Bruno Monsaingeon

Richter—Rediscovered—Carnegie Hall Recital RCA Red Seal

Books by Michael Kimmelman

Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere (1999)