Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer whose Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames and Hudson) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She is also the author of Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s and Hannah Wilke, and her essays have appeared in monographs on Doris Salcedo, Alfredo Jaar, Willie Cole and Gary Simmons, among many others. A former Senior Editor at Art in America, she has also written for the New York Times, Hyperallergic and elsewhere, and taught at Princeton University, Yale University, Bard College, the School of Visual Arts and the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.
Nancy Princenthal
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2017
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