Brian D'Amato
Brian D'Amato is an artist whose sculptures and installations have been shown in galleries and museums all over the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He has written for such magazines as Harper's Bazaar, Index, Vogue, and Flash Art, and he has taught art and art history at CUNY, the Ohio State University, and Yale. His first novel, Beauty, which Dean Koontz called "the best first novel I have read in a decade," was an international bestseller.