Ágnes Berecz teaches modern and contemporary art history at the School of Graduate Studies of The Fashion Institute of Technology and at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The New York correspondent of the Budapest-based art monthly,
Muérto, she is currently writing a book about the cultural politics of painting in postwar France. Her writings have been published in
Art in America,
Artmargins and
Praesens as well as in European and US exhibitions catalogues. Her most recent work includes “Painting Lessons: Hantaï and His Critics” in the Winter 2008 issue of
Art Journal, “Grand Slam: Histories of and by Georges Mathieu” in the
Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin and “Close Encounters: On Pierre Restany and Nouveau Réalisme” in the catalogue of the exhibition New Realisms, 1957-1962 held in June 2010 at the Reina Sofia in Madrid.
