Amei Wallach

Amei Wallach is an art critic and filmmaker. Her documentary film portrait, “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here,” debuted at New York’s Film Forum and the Moscow Biennale in Fall, 2013 and opens in Paris at the Grand Palais, where the Kabakovs will be in the Monumenta artists, in May, 2014. She is the author of “Ilya Kabakiv: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away” (Abrams, 1996), the first monograph on the artist. She has contributed to such publications as The New Yrk Times Magazine, The Nation, Art in America and ArtNews. With the late Marion Cajori, she co-directed the internationally acclaimed documentary “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine.” She was chief art critic for Newsday and New York Newsday, arts commentator for the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, and is president emeritus of AICA/USA, the US chapter of the International Art Critics Association.