David Pagel is an art critic who writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times. He is an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. Recent exhibitions he has organized include: "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," with Terrie Sultan for the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston (8/22/08-11/15/08) and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University (1/13/09-4/4/09); "Electric Mud" at the Blaffer (1/17/09-3/28/09); and "L.A. Now" at the Las Vegas Art Museum (12/11/08)-3/8/09). He also builds fantastic dioramas.
M.A., Harvard University, Art History, 1987
B.A., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature, with Honors and Distinction in the Humanities, 1985
