Michelle Kamhi

Michelle Marder Kamhi is an independent scholar and critic, author of Bucking the Artworld Tide (2020) and Who Says That’s Art? (2014), and former co-editor of the arts journal Aristos. She co-authored What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000), praised by Choice magazine for its critique of 20th-century art. Kamhi holds a degree from Barnard College and an M.A. in Art History from Hunter College. Before joining Aristos in 1984, she worked as an editor at Columbia University Press and has contributed articles to publications like the Wall Street Journal and American Greatness. She is a member of the American Society for Aesthetics and the National Art Education Association, among others. Kamhi lives in New York City with her husband, Louis Torres.