Art Writing

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You started at the Times as a music critic working alongside people like John Russell. When he learned that you'd been trained as an art historian, he asked you if you would also be interested in writing about art. You've said that he must have been desperate to invite you to do that. Well, I can't imagine John Russell being desperate about anything, but why would you think that? He was the coolest customer. So I should also say John became the godfather to my older child. And I loved John and his wife, Rosamind, and I missed them both very much.

Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times since 2011, writing about cities, public space, infrastructure, community development, public housing, equity, and the environment. He joins to talk about his extraordinary career in journalism and his new book, “The Intimate City: Walking New York.”