Judith E. Stein

Judith E. Stein is a writer and independent curator. She is the author of Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016). Her curatorial projects include Red Grooms, A Retrospective, for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, co-curated with Paul Schimmel, for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her exhibition, I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin, traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1995, and earned a best catalogue award from AICA/USA. Her articles, interviews and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Art News, and the New York Times Book Review, as well as on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition. Among her honors is a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a Pew Fellowship for literary non-fiction.