Michael Kimmelman

Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. He is based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. (November 2009)

From the Review

November 19, 2009: At the Bad New Ballparks

The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan by Dana Brand

August 13, 2009: Bad Bargains for Russian Music

The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years by Simon Morrison

The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays by Richard Taruskin

On Russian Music by Richard Taruskin

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)