Peter R. Kalb

Peter R. Kalb is the Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Brandeis University where he teaches modern and contemporary art history. He was also recently appointed to the core faculty of the Brandeis Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. He is the author of Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, (Pearson and Laurence King: New York and London, 2014) which details the expanding contemporary art world from its New York explosion in the early 1980s to its global expanse in the 21st century. Before preparing Art Since 1980, he was the revising author of the Fifth Edition of H.H. Arnason History of Modern Art and the author of High Drama: The New York Cityscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe and Margaret Bourke-White. Current projects include research on artists responses to the Apollo Mission, a series of articles on the politics of representation as evident in the work of Andrea Bowers, writing on the innovative practice of bricolage in the work of Tom Sachs, and the intersection of archeology and art history in the contemporary art world.