by living American artists. In 1978 Geldzhaler left the Met and was succeeded in his role there by Thomas B. Hess. He was then appointed the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City by Mayor Edward I. Koch. As an openly gay man who was part of the Koch administration and the conservative Metropolitan Museum of Art, Geldzahler contributed significant time and effort to AIDS-related causes. After leaving his New York City government cultural post, he continued to write on art, and acted as an independent curator, working at the alternative space P.S. 1 and the austere high modernist Dia Art Foundation. Writings Geldzhaler wrote, among other works: Catalog of New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970 in 1969 American Painting in the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965), Charles Bell: The Complete Works, 1970-1990 (Abrams, 1991), and Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks (Harvest Books, 1996) with an introduction by Mr. Hockney. He co-wrote Art in Transit: Subway Drawings by Keith Haring (1984), Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties (Thames and Hudson, 1993) Death Geldzahler died of liver cancer on August 16, 1994, at his home in Southampton, New York. He was 59 years old. He is buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York. Depictions Geldzahler is the subject of a documentary film called Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006) by Peter Rosen. He is depicted in portraits by several of his artist friends, including a famous 1969 double portrait by David Hockney of Geldzahler with his then partner, painter Christopher Scott. Other artists made his portrait such as Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Alice Neel, and the sculptor George Segal "There are lots of pictures of Henry. He didn’t have many mirrors in his home. He knew what he looked like just by asking people to make portraits of him.’ Hockney said. Geldzahler is depicted in an Andy Warhol movie, Henry Geldzahler (1964), filmed silent and in black-and-white the first week of July 1964. The film consists of Geldzahler smoking a cigar and becoming increasingly uncomfortable for 97 minutes. He appeared, as himself, in the 1974 David Hockney biopic, A Bigger Splash. Footnotes References Tomkins, Calvin. "Profiles: Henry Geldzahler." New Yorker November 6, 1971: 58-60. "Henry Geldzahler interview, 1970 Jan. 27" Sound recordings: 2 sound tape reels; 7 in. Transcript: 76 p. (microfilm reel 3197) Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. External