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Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He wrote his first fiction piece for the magazine in 1958 and his first fact piece in 1962. His many Profile subjects include Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Georgia O’Keeffe, Leo Castelli, Frank Stella, Carmel Snow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, and Jasper Johns. Tomkins wrote the Art World column from 1980 to 1988.
Before joining The New Yorker, Tomkins was a general editor of Newsweek, a post he held from 1957 through 1959. He had joined Newsweek as an associate editor in 1955.
Tomkins is the author of “The Bride and the Bachelors,” (1965), “Merchants and Masterpieces,” (1970), “Living Well Is the Best Revenge,” (1971), “Off the Wall,” (1980), and “Post- to Neo-,” (1988), an examination of changes in the art world in the nineteen-eighties. His most recent book is “Duchamp,” a biography of the artist.
Tomkins has served on the board of directors of the Cunningham Dance Foundation and on the Fine Arts Committee of Battery Park City. He was named a Guggenheim fellow in 1978.
Tomkins lives in New York City.
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