Jonathon Keats

Jonathon Keats is a critic, journalist, novelist and artist. He is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine, writes a weekly art column for Forbes.com, and has contributed art criticism to Art & Antiques, Art + Auction, Art in America, and Salon.com. His writing on the arts and sciences has also appeared in Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is most recently the author of Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age, published by Oxford University Press in 2013, and Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, published by OUP in 2011. His fiction includes The Book of the Unknown, published by Random House, awarded the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal in 2010. His conceptual art has been exhibited at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Wellcome Collection. [Photo: Jen Dessinger]