Calvin Tomkins, longtime writer for The New Yorker, dies at 100

Learn Fire Island's century-long influence on the art world

Fire Island’s status as a vacation (and haven) for queer people is well documented. But lesser known, perhaps, is the small barrier island’s outsized impact on the art world.A new book, Fire Island Art: 100 Years, is the first major collection to document Fire Island’s contributions to art history. Stars like Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Paul Cadmus, David Hockney, Peter Hujar, and Robert Mapplethorpe are on display here. But there are also cont…

Calvin Tomkins, longtime writer for The New Yorker, dies at 100

An author and longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Calvin Tomkins has died at 100. The writer who died Friday was known for his witty and expansive profiles of Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and dozens of other visual artists.

Calvin Tomkins, who narrated the rise of contemporary art, dies at 100

During a six-decade career at the New Yorker, Mr. Tomkins profiled scores of artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile

David Remnick on the late Calvin Tomkins, who for nearly seventy years, captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker.

Calvin Tomkins, who, over six decades at the New Yorker, wrote dozens of profiles of artists like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely, has died at 100

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Calvin Tomkins, Who Profiled Giants of Modern Art, Dies at 100

Calvin Tomkins, whose elegant and searching profiles for The New Yorker created an enduring portrait gallery of the prime movers in modern art from the 1960s onward, died on Friday at his home in Middletown, Rhode Island. He was 100.