Helen A. Harrison, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, is a former art reviewer and feature writer for The New York Times and visual arts commentator for National Public Radio. Before becoming the Pollock-Krasner House director in 1990, she was the curator of the Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall Museum, and a guest curator at the Queens Museum in Flushing. Among her publications are many exhibition catalogs, essays and articles, and several books, including Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, co-authored with Constance Ayers Denne, and monographs on Jackson Pollock and Larry Rivers. Her most recent books are three mystery novels set in the New York art world.