Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic of The New York Times .
A native New Yorker, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, he is the author of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa and Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere..
He has reported from more than forty countries and founded Headway, a nonprofit journalistic initiative focused on global challenges and paths to progress.
He was the paper\'s chief art critic and, from Berlin, created the Abroad column, covering politics and culture across Europe and the Middle East.
Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic of The New York Times