Calvin Tomkins

Calvin Tomkins (1925–2026) was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more six decades, contributing nearly four hundred pieces to the magazine. One of the foremost chroniclers of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century art world, he profiled artists ranging from Georgia O'Keeffe to Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including Living Well Is the Best Revenge and Duchamp: A Biography.