Michael Klein (born January 23, 1952) is an artist’s agent and freelance consultant and curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations, writer, curator, and program director currently operating Michael Klein Arts in New York City.
[2] Michael Klein Arts services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid career and established artists.
Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists including Sanford Biggers, Glenn Goldberg, Charles Goldman, Ken Lum and Sam Van Aken.
[7][8] Klein has been a regular contributor to Sculpture Magazine[2] in addition to writing reviews and feature articles for Art in America, ARTnews, Artnet[9] and theartsection.com.
[10][11] He has authored catalog essays on such artists as David Bates, Lynda Benglis, Jane Dickson, Mel Kendrick, Alex Katz,[12] Louise Nevelson[13] and Paul Thek, as well as articles on Jonathan Borofsky,[14] Sol LeWitt,[15] Malcolm Morley,[9] Matthew McCaslin[16] and H.C.