Calvin Tomkins, Master Profiler of the Contemporary Art World, Dead at 100

Calvin Tomkins, whose vivid and revealing profiles of contemporary art’s most fabled figures graced the pages of the New Yorker for more than sixty years, died on March 20 at his home in Middletown, Rhode Island. He was one hundred years old. His wife, Dodie Kazanjian, told the New York Times that his death was […]