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Michael Kimmelman is an American author, critic, columnist and pianist. He is the architecture critic for ''The New York Times'' and has written on issues of public housing, public space, infrastructure, community development and social responsibility. In March, 2014, he was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize for his "insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York's architectural environment" that is "journalism at its finest."〔http://www.archdaily.com/485248/michael-kimmelman-wins-2014-brendan-gill-prize/〕 ==Life and career== Kimmelman was born and raised in Greenwich Village, the son of a physician and a sculptor, both civil rights activists. He attended PS 41 and Friends Seminary in Manhattan, graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Yale College with a degree in history and received his graduate degree in art history from Harvard University, where he was an Arthur Kingsley Porter Fellow.〔("Ask a Reporter: Michael Kimmelman – Chief Art Critic" ), ''The New York Times'', July 2005〕 He was the ''New York Times longtime chief art critic – "the most acute American art critic of his generation," in the words of the Australian writer Robert Hughes.〔"Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere" (Random House, 1998)〕 In 2007, Kimmelman created the Abroad column, as a foreign correspondent covering culture, political and social affairs across Europe and elsewhere. He returned to New York from Europe in autumn 2011 as the paper's senior critic and architecture critic, and his articles since then, on Penn Station, the New York Public Library, the World Trade Center, the new Whitney Museum,〔 by Michael Kimmelman, ''The New York Times'', 6 February 2005〕 Lucian Freud, Raymond Pettibon and Matthew Barney along with the architects Shigeru Ban, Peter Zumthor and Oscar Niemeyer. Author of ''Portraits'' and ''The Accidental Masterpiece'', a national bestseller, for two years he was associated with the Times's Cities For Tomorrow conference, organizing the ones in 2014 and 2015. And he has hosted various television features, appearing in the 2007 documentary film ''My Kid Could Paint That''. From late 2007 to mid-2011 he was based in Berlin covering, among other subjects, the crackdown on cultural freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, life in Gaza under Hamas, the rise of the far-right in Hungary, Négritude in France, bullfighting in contemporary Spain, Czech humor in the context of political protest, and Holocaust education for a new generation of Germans. For his role in saving the David and Gladys Wright house, Kimmelman received the Spirit Award from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in 2014. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale,〔http://news.yale.edu/2014/01/17/noted-new-york-times-columnist-franke-visiting-fellow-spring〕 he has received honorary doctorates from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2013 and the Pratt Institute in May, 2014.〔()〕 He also contributes regularly to ''The New York Review of Books''.〔http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/michael-kimmelman-2/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Kimmelman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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