Mark Stevens was the art critic for Newsweek between 1977 and 1988 and then moved to The New Republic (1988-95) and New York Magazine (1995-2006). He is the author of a novel, Summer in the City (1984), and he has written numerous essays for books, art magazines, and catalogues, most recently an essay for Jenny Saville (Rizzoli, 2018) and one for Francis Bacon: Late Paintings (Gagosian, 2015).
Stevens has also written for many general interest publications, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he has served for many years on the advisory council of the Princeton University Art Museum, and of King’s College, Cambridge.
In 2007-08, Mark was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, which enabled him to begin work on the biography of Francis Bacon.
