Kevin Salatino

Reading the Art World · Sep 15, 2026 · 35m

For the 49th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Kevin Salatino, chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, about “Willem de Kooning Drawing,” the exhibition and catalogue published by the Art Institute of Chicago in association with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and distributed by Yale University Press.

For an artist predominantly known as a painter, de Kooning built his entire practice on drawing. Salatino makes this the through line of the exhibition—the way de Kooning thought and worked across every medium. He explains the…