Nicole Rudick is a critic and editor. Her writing often focuses on artists and writers who work in a hybrid medium or have been marginalized by art history. In 2015, she received the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for editing, and her essay “A Space for Thinking,” on Peanuts, was given honorable mention in Best American Essays 2020.
Rudick is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and Apollo, and her writing has appeared in T Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, Bookforum, the Poetry Foundation, and The Paris Review, as well as in catalogues published by the Drawing Center, the New Museum, RISD Museum of Art, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Her book on Niki de Saint Phalle was published in 2022 by Siglio Press.
She has been an editor at The Paris Review, Artforum, and Bookforum. In 2018, she served as interim editor of The Paris Review, editing the Spring and Summer issues and hosting the first season of the magazine’s podcast.
Read a profile of Rudick from the New York Review of Books newsletter; an interview conducted in 2018 by the writer and publisher Martin Riker; and an appreciation by the former staff of The Paris Review.
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