Calvin Tomkins (born December 17, 1925) is an American author and art critic for The New Yorker magazine.
After graduating from Berkshire School, he attended Princeton University and received an undergraduate degree in 1948.
His first piece of nonfiction writing for the magazine was a profile of Jean Tinguely that appeared in 1962.
[2][3] As a New Yorker writer, he interviewed and wrote numerous profiles of major 20th-century figures from the art world and other fields, including Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leo Castelli, Frank Stella, Carmel Snow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Julie Mehretu, Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, David Hammons, and Jasper Johns.
His fourth and current wife is fellow writer Dodie Kazanjian, who is both a Vogue magazine contributing editor and director of Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.