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Amei Wallach is a New York-based filmmaker, art critic journalist, and author. Her documentary films have profiled the artists Louise Bourgeois, Ilya Kabakov, and Emilia Kabakov. Her articles have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and Art in America.

Personal life
Amei Wallach attended the University of Chicagofrom 1959 – 1961, dropped out to pursue acting in New Yorkm and completed her Bachelor of Science at the Columbia University School of General Studies. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Fellow at Stanford Universityfrom 1983 to 1984. Wallach currently lives on Long Island with her husband, Bill Edwards.

Career
Wallach worked as Chief Art Critic for Newsday and New York Newsday from 1984-1995, and was an on-air arts essayist for the PBS NewsHour(the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour at the time) from 1987-1995. As an art critic, Wallach's articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine , The Nation , Smithsonian Vanity Fair, Vogue , Art in America, ARTnews, Aperture , Parkett , and the Brooklyn Rail.

Wallach interviewed German artist Anselm Kiefer in 1988, David Hammons in 1991, and in October 2001 Art In America’s cover showed the burning circle of a dessert funeral for Wallach’s essay on the Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat.

Filmwork
In 2008 Wallach co-directed and co-produced Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine with Marion Cajori, and the team of Ken Kobland (editor) and Kipjaz Savoie (line producer). The film is a documentary portrait of the influential sculptor whose career spanned much of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, and of the turbulent emotions she processed into her work. The New York Times called the film a "Superb documentary portrait", and The Seattle Times wrote "Yes, yes, yes. That's he answer you should give yourself if you are wondering: 'Should I go see the new Louise Bourgeois documentary?'".

In 2013, Wallach directed Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here. Beginning in the Ukraine under Joseph Stalin, the film culminates in 2008 with the artists’ first public exhibition in Moscow, in venues throughout the city, including the Pushkin Museum.

Her latest film, Taking Venice: The Rauschenberg Factor tells two interlocking Cold War stories, and Robert Rauschenberg became the first American to win the top prize at the Venice Biennale. Filmed in the U.S., London, and Venice, the film chronicles the machinations leading to the prize, and Rauschenberg’s artistic and political awakening.