Judd Tully is an art critic and journalist who writes about artists and the art market. He has been contributor to BlouinARTINFO,

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and covered topics such as the potential indictment of museum staff in response to

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's 1990 retrospective, and some of the first post-war multi-million dollar auction records. He is formerly the Editor-at-large for Blouin Artinfo. He has also appeared on CNBC and MSNBC.

Biography

Judd Tully was born Judd Goldstein in Chicago and attended Lake View High School. He also attended American University in Washington, DC and went on to pursue a masters at the University of Oregon. He initially got his start writing for underground newspapers and journals in the Bay Area such as the

Berkeley Barb The ''Berkeley Barb'' was a weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California, during the years 1965 to 1980. It was one of the first and most influential of the counterculture newspapers, covering such subjects as the anti-war move ...

. When Tully moved to New York City around 1972 he began to write freelance art reviews for publications such as the

New Art Examiner The ''New Art Examiner'' was an international magazine of critical art thinking founded in Chicago, Illinois, in October 1973 by Derek Guthrie and Jane Addams Allen. Publication ceased in 2002. As of 2023 there are two publications using the na ...

and

SoHo Weekly News The ''SoHo Weekly News'' (also called the ''SoHo News'') was a weekly alternative newspaper published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. The paper was founded in 1973 by Michael Goldstein (1938–2018). History The first issue was published on ...

eventually becoming a stringer for

in 1985. Tully also serves as the Chairman of the

Reuben Kadish Reuben Kadish (January 29, 1913 – September 20, 1992) was an American artist, specializing as a sculptor, draughtsman, muralist, painter, and printmaker. In his later career he also taught art history and sculpture in New York City. Biography ...

Foundation. In June 2022, a feature length documentary film about

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, directed by both Tully and Harold Crooks, premiered at the 2022 Sheffield DocFest.

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Judd Tully Archives
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