Ed Hoffman Interviews Mark Polizzotti
Publisher & Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Since 2010, Mark Polizzotti has served as Publisher & Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Since 1999, he has also overseen publications and digital image resources in his role as Director of Intellectual Property and Publisher of MFA Publications at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. MFA Publications publishes 10-12 new book titles per year, as well as e-books and digital publications (including electronic editions of MFA books and an online journal). He also supervises the museum's digital-imaging photography studios, rights and licensing operations, and image and data archiving and storage. Prior to his work at the Museum of Fine Arts, he was Editorial Director at David R. Godine, Publisher (1993-1999), Senior Editor at Grove Weidenfeld (1985-1990), and Assistant Editor at Random House (1983-85).
Since 1995 he has also worked as a freelance translator (from French) and editor for the Metropolitan Museum on such major exhibition catalogues as The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (1997), Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet (1999), Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard (2006), and Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors(2009). He is the author of six books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995; revised edition 2009), and the translator of more than 30 books including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Jean Echenoz, and Maurice Roche.