Editing Brian O'Doherty (section)

==Career==
In the 1960s, O'Doherty was an art critic for the ''New York Times.'' He commissioned [[Roland Barthes]] to write his "Death of the Author" essay for a special edition of ''Aspen'' magazine in 1967.<ref name=F/> He was also an editor of ''[[Art in America]]'' and an on-air art critic for [[NBC]].<ref name=Greenberger/>

In his mid-career,<ref name=F/> O'Doherty began signing his work under the name "Patrick Ireland" in reaction to the [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]] killings in [[Derry]] in 1972. 
For many years, O'Doherty was an influential member of the senior staff of the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]; first as director of the Visual Arts Program, and subsequently as director of the Media Arts Program, where he was responsible for the creation of such major public television series as ''[[American Masters]]'' and ''[[Great Performances]]''.

He authored numerous works of art criticism, including his books ''American Masters'' (1973) and ''Inside the White Cube:  The Ideology of the Gallery Space'' (1976), a series of essays first published in ''Artforum''.<ref name=F>{{cite news|title=Public Spectacle: Mark Godfrey and Rosie Bennett Talk to Brian O'Doherty|publisher=Frieze|p=56|date=<!-- Jan/Feb/ --> 2004}}</ref> In the latter book, he discusses and invents{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} the term for the contemporary gallery space. He also wrote novels: ''The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.'' (1992), the 2000 [[Booker Prize]]-nominated ''The Deposition of Father McGreevy'' (1999), and ''The Crossdresser's Secret'' (2014). He had a [[retrospective]] at Dublin's Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in 2005.<ref name=F/>

In 1975, after a visit to the home of [[Beverly Pepper]] in [[Todi]], Italy, O'Doherty and his wife bought a vacation home in the town, and painted the plastered interior walls in vibrant colors. The house is now open for tours and is known as the [[Casa Dipinta of Todi]].<ref>[https://www.visitodi.eu/it/scopri/art/poi.html?id=26230:la-casa-dipinta Casa Dipinta of Todi], in Visitodi website.</ref>

On 20 May 2008, in recognition of the progress for peace in Ireland, O'Doherty ceremoniously buried his alter ego at the [[Irish Museum of Modern Art]] in Dublin, and resumed being called by his birth name.<ref name=ARTINFO>{{citation | title= Irish Artist to "Bury" Alter Ego | publisher=ARTINFO  | date= 6 May 2008 | url= http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27521/irish-artist-to-bury-alter-ego/| accessdate=14 May 2008 }}</ref><ref name=Kimmelman>{{citation |last=Kimmelman|first=Michael|title=Patrick Ireland, 36, Dies; Created to Serve Peace|accessdate=22 May 2008|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=22 May 2005|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/arts/design/22patr.html}}</ref>

In 2018, at the age of 90, O’Doherty was the subject of three exhibitions celebrating his work in his native Ireland, including the restoration of the room sized “One Here Now” installation he created at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cork in 1995-96.<ref name=Wilkinson>{{citation |last=Wilkinson |first=Judith|  title= "I Am Now a Saint": Brian O’Doherty Turns 90 | publisher=Frieze | date= 10 May 2018 | url= https://frieze.com/article/i-am-now-saint-brian-odoherty-turns-90 | accessdate=24 April 2019 }}</ref>

In ''The modern art collection, Trinity College Dublin'', David Scott writes that:

<blockquote>Much influenced by [[Marcel Duchamp]] he is an essentially interrogative artist, constantly questioning artistic conventions and the assumptions on which we base our aesthetic judgements.</blockquote>