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WRITING

I dispel popular myths, examine deserving and undeserving trends and bring exposure to new and deserving art and artists. I founded Art F City, a popular contemporary art blog that ran from 2005-2018. All of the writing on Art F City, served that end.

2022

SELECTED ARTICLES

Art Problems: How do I Manage My Time? Hyperallergic, Feb 16, 2022
Art Problems: Is My Art Good Enough? Hyperallergic, Feb 16, 2022

2021

SELECTED ARTICLES

NFTs Are Making 1990s Net Artists Collectible in Their Native Mediums, Introspective, December 19, 2021

2019

SELECTED ARTICLES

Ready to Meet the New MoMA? You’ll Need More Time, and Money Than Ever Before, Observer, October 17, 2019

The Controversy, Nasher Magazine, Fall 2019. Illustrations by William Powhida.

The Passive Aggressive Fight Over Luis Barragán’s Archive Hits the Big Screen in ‘The Proposal’, Observer, May 25, 2019

Whitney Biennial Aims its Critique in All Directions, Observer, May 15, 2019

Ivanka Trump Vacuuming Crumbs is Not Brilliant, CNN, February 11, 2019


SELECTED PODCASTS

Standing in quicksand, Art F City, February 12, 2019

2018

Selected Articles

Meow Wolf Say They Don’t Care If Their Immersive Art Makes Them Money, But Can We Believe Them? Observer, November 29, 2018

Was Andy Warhol Sexist? Observer, November 8, 2018

The Met’s Decision to Lease to the Frick is a Mistake, Observer, September 24, 2018

The Met’s Jack Whitten Show Is Excellent, Observer, September 11, 2018

Meet the Nuclear Weapons Nerds, GIZMODO, August 27, 2018

This is Why Post-Internet Art Doesn’t Look High-Tech, VICE March 13, 2018

Emoji Domains are the Future, Maybe, GIZMODO, February 26, 2018

These Artists Believe Aliens Are Real, Satan Lives, and the Apocalypse is Coming, VICE, Jan 31, 2018

Selected Podcasts

Museum Board Members Fail Moral Challenges, Museum Exhibitions Exceed Expectations, Art F City, Dec 4, 2018'

Live From Forward Union: Four Women Who Are Using Art to Change the World, Art F City, September 29, 2018

The Case for Taxing The Hell Out of Peter Brant, Art F City, July 16, 2018

Bags of Cash Help New Galleries, Art F City, June 6, 2018

Related Utopias—Bitcoin Economies and the Art World, Art F City, May 1, 2018

The New Museum Triennial—Two Critics Perform Their Own Acts of Sabotage, Art F City, April 18, 2018

The Spring Break Art Show Part One and Two With Pictures!, Art F City, March 17, 2018

The Stink of Met Admission Hikes Endures, Art F City, Feb 21, 2018

2017

Selected Articles

Narcissister Starts a Pussy Riot at Performa, VICE, November 6, 2017

An Experimental Book Tests Our Abilities to Perceive Multiple Mediums Simultaneously, Hyperallergic, October 16, 2017

Catbox Contemporary; it Looks Different in Person, Art F City, 2017

Why I Like But Don't Love Cindy Sherman Photographs, Hyperallergic, August 7, 2017

The Venice Biennale: An Orphanage for the Terminally Out of Touch, Art F City, May 17, 2017

Selected Podcasts

What Curators Really Think—A Cringe Worthy Report, Art F City, December 29, 2017

Gentrification, Income Inequality and Donald Trump Baby Turds, Art F City, November 24, 2017

Explain Me with Kenny Schachter: How Trumpian is the Art World?, Art F City, November 7, 2017

Monsters and Monstahs in the House, Art F City, October 18, 2017

2016

Selected Articles

Julie Mehretu at Marian Goodman Gallery: Can Social Abstraction Succeed? Art F City, October 20, 2016

Hot as Hell: Peter Burr's Subterranean Utopias, Art F City, September 23, 2016

The Artist-Centric Movement has its Milestone Moment: SPRING/BREAK, Art F City, March 7, 2016

2015

Selected Articles

Stories Made With Love: Sondra Perry’s Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Workstation, Art F City, July 7, 2015

Superscript: Two Days in an Auditorium with Art Critics, Art F City, June 4, 2015

Seriously, Fuck You George Baselitz, Art F City, May 21, 2015 

The Connection Between NADA and a Cheese Monger in Greenpoint, Art F City, May 17, 2015 

The Terror and Thrill of Potential at Rhizome's Seven on Seven, Art F City, May 6, 2015

At the Whitney: Industry, Advertising and Death Makes America Hard to See, Art F City, April 27, 2015

2014

Selected Articles

Richard Prince Sucks, artnet News, October 21, 2014

2009

Selected IMG MGMT Essays

Jon Rafman, The nine eyes of Google Street view, Art F City, 2009

Shauna Moulton, Squiggles, Trees, Ribbons and Spirals: My Collection of Women’s Health, Beauty and Support Group Logos as the Stages of Life in Semi-Particular Order, Art F City, 2009

Martha Rosler, Women in Kitchen, Art F City, 2009