Justin Davidson

Life and career

Justin Davidson was born in Rome, Italy on May 16, 1966. In 1983, he graduated from the American Overseas School of Rome, where his mother was an English teacher. Davidson began his journalism career as a local stringer for the Associated Press in Rome, before moving to the United States to study music at Harvard University. He went on to earn a doctorate degree in music composition at Columbia University, where he also taught. Davidson became a staff writer for the Long Island newspaper Newsday in 1996, where he about both classical music and architecture. In September 2007, he was hired by New York magazine, continuing as a dual classical music and architecture critic.

In 2002, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, for "his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence." He was a finalist the prize earlier in 1999, and later in 2020. Fellow music critic Jayson Greene stated that "Davidson situates classical music in the same cultural conversation as other art forms, and his dynamic prose is rich with vivid allusions to, for example, photography and painting." As of 2021, Davidson and Alex Ross at The New Yorker are the only classical music critics who write regularly for a general-interest American magazine.

Davidson was among the faculty of D-Crit, and has taught courses at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

He is married to Ariella Budick, a New York–based art critic for the Financial Times.

Selected writings

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5. Day, Sherri. (April 8, 2002). "New York Times Wins a Record Seven Pulitzer Prizes". [[The New York Times]].
6. Lucey, Bill. (January 28, 2013). "Former Newsday Staffer Justin Davidson Adjusting to the New Rhythms at New York Magazine". [[Huffington Post]].
7. "The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winners - Criticism". [[The Pulitzer Prizes]].
8. "School of Visual Arts—MFA Design Criticism". [[e-flux]].