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Michèle C. Cone

Michèle C. Cone is an interdisciplinary scholar specialized in 20th century art, with a special interest in fascist regimes and their use of art as visual propaganda. Her Ph.D thesis was published by Princeton University Press in 1992, under the title Artists under Vichy. A collection of her scholarly articles was published in 2001 under the title French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art before, during and after Vichy. She is also the author of The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century, a survey of 20th century art published in 1975 by Horizon Press.

Though trained as a historian, she is keenly interested in contemporary art and has been in turn New York coordinator for Flash Art in the 80s, French correspondant for Arts Magazine in the 90s, and contributor to Art Press, Artics, Balcon, D'Ars, Arte in Colombia among other foreign publications. She now writes for Art News, artnet.com magazine, Art in America.

Decorated by the French government in 1978 as Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres for her lecture tour through the United States on the newly opened Pompidou Center, she is a visiting scholar at the Institute of French Studies where she received her doctorate in 1988. She is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, teaching "Ideas in art" in the Fall term and "Art, Politics and Propaganda" in the Spring term.

She is a member of PEN, of the College Art Association, ArtTable, Who's Who in American Art, and is currently on the board of the American section of the art critics association, AICA/USA.