Piri Halasz is an American art critic, educator and writer.

Biography

The daughter of diet-book author Ruth West, she attended

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

, where she majored in English and served as the features editor of the ''Barnard Bulletin''. She then went on to ''

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'' where she was employed first as a researcher and next as a writer. In 1966, she wrote the famous cover story for the aforementioned periodical '' Swinging London''. Subsequently, this led to her authoring a travel guide of the same name for Coward McCann first published in 1967 and reissued in 2010 under the iUniverse imprint as part of the Authors Guild "Back in Print" series. Between 1972 and 1975, she wrote on art and theater for the

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edition of ''

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''. At present, she writes on art for among other publications ''

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''. In addition to writing for various journals and penning her own volumes, she publishes a blog/print edition newsletter called "From the Mayor's Doorstep" (alluding to her residence being in the shadow of

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). As an educator, she has taught at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, Hunter College, CW Post College,

Molloy College Molloy University is a private Roman Catholic university in Rockville Centre, New York. It provides more than 50 academic undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs for over 5,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. His ...

and

Bethany College (West Virginia) Bethany College is a private liberal arts college in Bethany, West Virginia. Founded in 1840 by Alexander Campbell of the Restoration Movement, who gained support by the Virginia legislature, Bethany College was the first institution of higher ...

. Halasz's autobiographical volume entitled ''A Memoir Of Creativity: Abstract Painting, Politics & The Media, 1956–2008'' was published by iUniverse in 2009. Kenworth Moffett, in his review of the book, said that "''A Memoir of Creativity'' by Piri Halasz is a witty, honest, scrupulously researched, and well written account of the author's life experiences and intellectual development."“A Memoir of Creativity” by Piri Halasz is a witty, honest, scrupulously researched, and well written account of the author's life experiences and intellectual development. Fr

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