Dan Nadel

Dan Nadel is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. A 2021-2022 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Dan regularly contributes essays and criticism to Art in America, the New York Review of Books, and Artforum, as well as museum and gallery catalogs internationally. Currently, Dan is a co-curator for a large-scale rethinking of the art history of the 1960s at the Whitney Museum of American Art (March 2025). Dan has organized numerous exhibitions, including Chicago Comics, 1960s to Now for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985 at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis. He is working on a forthcoming biography of Robert Crumb (Scribner, Spring 2025).

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