Linda Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, as well as an art critic and journalist who has been covering the international art world for more than 25 years. Her byline has appeared in The New York Times and T Magazine, Bloomberg News, Artforum and Artforum.com, The Art Newspaper, and W Magazine, among many other publications. She has also contributed critical essays to monographs on artists including Anish Kapoor, Keith Sonnier, Marilyn Minter, Francesco Vezzoli, Elmgreen & Dragset, Mark Morrisroe and James Nares. At MacDowell in 2019, she worked on Why Jeff Koons?, the first book to take complete account of this provocative artist's life and career, for publication by Henry Holt & Co.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
Linda Yablonsky
Discipline:
Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 1998, 2006, 2019
Studios
Schelling
Linda Yablonsky worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…