Darby English

Art historian whose work unlocks new dimensions of American art through a rigorous attention to form. His books include How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (2007); 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (2016); and To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror (2019). He also coedited the volumes Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress (2002) and Art History and Emergency (2016). He is the Carl Darling Buck Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. English also serves as adjunct curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.