Donald Kuspit was born and raised in New York, attended Stuyvesant High School, skipped 2 years, because he was chosen as a Ford Scholar then entered Columbia College when he was 16. T. W. Adorno was Kuspit’s mentor when Kuspit attended Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main. Kuspit was a member of the Dokumenta committee for 3 Dokumentas. Donald Kuspit’s doctorate in philosophy was on Alfred North Whitehead. Kuspit’s doctorate in art history was on Albrecht Durer. He was on the Policy Committee of the National Endowment for Arts for 2 years. Kuspit currently writes for Whitehot Magazine and other publications and continues to curate exhibitions and write books on contemporary art.