David Mickenherg (born April 24, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author, art professor and former museum director.
While at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, there were rumblings about his being hard to work under and a rash of staff resignations.
[4] At the Block Museum, he spearheaded a successful $25 million expansion[5] and at the Taubman he worked against the tide of the local public's apathy towards contemporary art by bringing in folk art in the form of giant styrofoam sculptures by a Roanoke favorite, Mark Cline.
[9] One of the more popular policies he instituted to achieve greater public visitation to the museum was to offer free admission for selected periods of time such as the summer season.
[15][16][17] He also wrote the introduction for The Graven Image: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640 (Northwestern University Press 1993).