Michael Kimmelman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Kimmelman
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1958(1958-05-08)
Age	66
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Taurus

Michael Kimmelman Biography

Michael Kimmelman is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 8, 1958 in New York City, United States. American writer, critic, columnist, and pianist Michael Kimmelman was born May 8, 1958. He is The New York Times’ architecture critic. His writings have focused on public housing, landscape architecture, equity, infrastructure, and urban design. He has reported from over 40 countries, and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner in 2018 was for his series about climate change and global cities. He was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize in March 2014 for his “insightful candor” and “continuous scrutiny of New York’s architecture environment”. This is “journalism at it’s finest.”

In autumn 2011, he returned to New York as the paper’s senior architecture critic and critic. His articles on Hudson Yards and Penn Station, sound and climate change, New York Public Library, New York Trade Center, transit, infrastructure, redevelopment following Hurricane Sandy, as also on Syrian refugee camp as do-it yourself cities, cultural identity and protest in Baghdad, Rio, and post-revolutionary Cairo have all helped to shape policy and the public discussion about architecture, urbanism and architectural criticism. ArchDaily referred to his 2015 Whitney Museum review as “the most important article of recent architectural memory.” He was awarded the Punch Sulzberger award by the American Society of News Editors for that and other works in 2016.

For his role in saving the David and Gladys Wright House by Frank Lloyd Wright, Kimmelman received the Spirit Award from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in 2014. He was the Annie Sonnenblick Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University in 2016. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, where he had also been a Poynter Fellow, he has received honorary doctorates from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in 2013 and the Pratt Institute in May

2014. In 2018, his and Josh Haner’s climate series in The New York Times won an award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) for “two superb articles on the environmental threats facing two Asian cities” that was “journalism par excellence.” In 2019, he was given the Preservation Award by the American Friends of the Georgian Group for his contribution to historic preservation.

He is a pianist, who was a student of Seymour Bernstein and still performs solo and with chamber ensembles on concert series throughout New York and Europe. He also served as an editor for the magazine I.D. New England Monthly architecture critic. He has written extensively about Gerhard Richter and Gerhard Richter as well as Matthew Barney, Raymond Pettibon, Lucian Freud and Matthew Barney, along with architects Alejandro Aravena and Shigeru Ban, Peter Zumthor, and Oscar Niemeyer. He is the author of Portraits and The Accidental Masterpiece. In 2007, he appeared in My Kid Could Paint That, which was a national bestseller.

Michael Kimmelman Net Worth

Michael Kimmelman is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Kimmelman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He married Maria Simson, a writer and editor in 1988.

He was in Berlin from late 2007 to mid 2011, covering among others, the crackdown against cultural freedom in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, life under Hamas in Gaza, the rise in far-right in Hungary and Negritude in France. Bullfighting in Spain today, Czech humor within the context of political demonstration, Holocaust education for a new generation.

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. In 2007, Kimmelman created the Abroad column, as a foreign correspondent covering culture, political and social affairs across Europe and elsewhere.

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Kimmelman celebrates birthday on May 8 of every year.