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Hoping Art Can Strike a Balance on the U.S.-Mexico Border: In a biennial show this spring and summer between two museums on either side of the border, artists tell fresh stories about a contentious region (NYT, Special Sections, April 2024)
Ancient Female Ballplayer Makes Public Debut: The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago (NYT, Science Times, April 2024)
SELECTED ARTICLES & PROFILES
Josh Kline is an Artist for the End of the World (T Magazine, March 2023)
The Optimistic Art of Mary Mattingly (T Magazine, October 2022)
How Should Art Reckon With Climate Change? (T Magazine, March 2022)
An Artist Who Disavows the Possibility of Individual Agency: According to Agnieszka Kurant, everything we make — from the systems that oppress us to the inventions that transform us — is the result of a collective. (T Magazine, November 2021)
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness: A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice (T Magazine, March 2021 - print view)
Jane Goodall: The Turtle Conservancy Interview (The Tortoise, 2021)
The Artist Whose Medium Is Science: Tavares Strachan is known for his ambitious projects and intensive research, which have included expeditions to the North Pole and training as a cosmonaut in Russia (T Magazine, September 2020 - print view)
Homero’s Odyssey: The poet-activist Homero Aridjis is on a quest to save Mexico’s wildlife— his 40-year journey began with sea turtles (The Tortoise, 2020)
Memory Work: In the world of memorial museums, the approach to show and tell can take very different forms — with significant consequences (Colgate Research, April 2020)
An Artist Whose Muse is Loneliness: Haegue Yang seeks isolation and then mines the accompanying confusion to reflect on the nature of belonging (T Magazine, March 2020 - print view)
Jordan Casteel Won’t Let You Look Away (New York Times, February 14, 2020)
Have We Finally Caught Up With Andrea Fraser? For over 30 years, the artist has waged a conceptual battle against the murky ethics of the art world. Now, finally, the larger culture is taking cues from her (T Magazine, December 2019 - print view)
What Happens when Site-Specific Art Outlasts Its Surroundings? (T Magazine, May 2019 - print view)
How Does a Museum Buy an Artwork That Doesn’t Physically Exist? (T Magazine, November 2018 - print view)
A New Crossroads in Moscow: Garage Museum Launches First Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art” (ARTnews, March 2017)
Specific Objectives: The Complex Task of Preserving Donald Judd’s Legacy (ARTnews, September 2016)
The Best Intentions: Inside The Wild World of Benefit Auctions” (ARTnews, June 2016)
On Gonzalo Fonseca: “The Artist to Watch in 2016 Has Been Dead for 20 Years” (Vulture, May 2015)
An Abbreviated Moscow Biennale Unites Scrappy Performances, Bourgeois Spiders, and One Former Greek Finance Minister (ARTnews, October 2015)
Kara Walker on the Domino Demolition: ‘It Makes Me Very Sad’ (The New York Observer, May 2014)
King of Queens: Tom Finkelpearl’s Game-Changing Museum Gets Bigger (The New York Observer, October 2013)
Domestic Art: Dealer Jose Martos Is Bringing It All Back Home (The New York Observer, August 2013)
Wild, Wild West: Marianne Vitale’s ‘The Missing Book of Spurs Hits Performa (The New York Observer, November 2013)
Sandwoman: Land Artist Agnes Denes Has a Plan for the Rockaways (The New York Observer, July 2013)
selected book Reviews
Jerry Saltz Plays it Uncharacteristically Safe (New York Times Book Review, November 2022)
A History of Getting Hammered and Why Some of Us Should Keep Doing It (New York Times Book Review, June 2021)
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (Bookforum, fall 2020)
From Nudes to the Nervous System, Studies of the Human Body (New York Times Book Review, November 2019)
The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke (New York Times Book Review, May 2018)
Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years by Christopher Frayling (New York Times Book Review, October 2017)
selected exhibition Reviews
“Where the threads are worn” at Casey Kaplan (Artforum, summer 2021)
“Lost & Found” at Martos Gallery (Artforum, May 2021)
“Everybody Dies!” at Carriage Trade (Artforum, April 2021)
Carmen Winant at Fortnight Institute (Artforum, January/February 2021)
“The Circus Has Been Cancelled” at Harper’s Books (Artforum, October/November 2020)
Ernst Yohji Jaeger at 15 Orient (Artforum, summer 2020)
Jana Euler at Artists Space (Artforum, May/June 2020)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at Neue Galerie (Artforum, March 2020)
Andra Ursuta at Ramiken (Artforum, February 2020)
Jason Rhoades at David Zwirner (Artforum, January 2020)
Perla Krauze at the Chimney (Artforum, December 2019)
Hayv Kahraman at Jack Shainman (Artforum, November 2019)
Todd Gray at David Lewis Gallery (Artforum, September 2019)
Verne Dawson at Eva Presenhuber + Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (Artforum, summer 2019)
Dana Schutz at Petzel Gallery (Artform, April 2019)
Sergej Jensen at Galerie Buchholz (Artforum, March 2019)
Lisa Yuskavage “Babie Brood” and “New Paintings” at David Zwirner (Artforum, February 2019)
“Make Believe” at Magenta Plains (Artforum.com, February 2019)
Remedios Varo at Museo de Arte Moderno (Artforum.com, January 2019)
Genieve Figgis at Half Gallery (Artforum, December 2018)
“Painting Now and Forever: Part III” at Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali (Artforum, November 2018)
Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Salon 94 (Artforum.com, October 2018)
Ryan Foerster at C L E A R I N G (Artforum, September 2018)
Math Bass at Mary Boone (Artforum.com, June 2018)
“Outliers and American Vanguard Art” at the National Gallery | “2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage” at the New Museum (Even, Issue 10, summer 2018)
Jamian Juliano-Villani at JTT (Artforum.com, January 2018)
Christian Marclay at Paula Cooper (Artforum.com, September 2017)
“Transformation and Transcendence: Anselm Kiefer Surprises at Gagosian Gallery With Airy, Sensual New Work” (ARTnews, July 2017)
Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Artforum.com, July 2017)
“The People’s Choice: One hundred years ago, the Russian revolution sent art history charging down a new track — but who now commemorates it? Three exhibitions in three cities reveal the art of a Soviet century, and the long journey from the Finland Station to Trump Tower,” (Even, Issue 7, Summer 2017)
Svenja Deininger at Secession (Artforum.com, March 2017)
Hilma af Klint at the Serpentine Gallery | Nasreen Mohamedi at the Met Breuer (Even, Issue 4, Summer 2016) - PDF
Jeanette Mundt at Off Vendome (Artforum.com, March 2016)
Sarah Charlesworth at the New Museum | Andreas Gursky at the Parrish Art Museum (Even, Issue 2, Fall 2015)
