Brian O'Doherty
Brian O’Doherty was an Irish art critic, writer, artist, and academic, he lived in New York City for more than 50 years. He used a number of alter egos, including Patrick Ireland and Mary Josephson. In the 1960s, he was an art critic for the New York Times. He has also been an editor of Art in America and an on-air art critic for NBC.
During his career, O'Doherty began signing his work under the name "Patrick Ireland" in reaction to the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry in 1972. For many years, O'Doherty was an influential member of the senior staff of the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of numerous works of art criticism, including his book American Masters and the influential book Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), a series of essays first published in Artforum.
He has also written novels and had a retrospective at Dublin's Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in 2005.
