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Selected articles:
Interviews:
- Why Rona Pondick kept journalists away from her private life for decades
- Artist Liz Larner on why photography does injustice to sculpture
- Sarah Schulman on how ACT UP New York changed the world
- Teju Cole on depicting the pain of others
- Geoff Dyer on treating philosophical problems 'like a cold bath—in and out quickly'
- Activist Gregg Bordowitz on what exists between the lines of poetry
- Rob Storr on making enemies
- Artist Alex Hay on why he spent two years making one pair of shoes
- Pankaj Mishra on the abject failures of liberalism
- Karl Ove Knausgaard on the shame of overspending on a Munch work at auction
- Jonas Wood on why artists shouldn't take advances from dealers
- ‘I don’t mind being repulsive’: Swiss painter Louise Bonnet on the lure of horror films
- Charles Gaines on arbitrariness and meaning
- Ellsworth Kelly: Looking backwards, moving forwards
Polemics:
- The revolution is the trial: on the storming of the U.S. Capitol
- Loosely hanging appendages: on Rachel Harrison
- Sturtevant's provincialism
- Inside an unquiet mind: on Lawrence Alloway’s failure
- Against allegory: on Benjamin Buchloh and Danh Vo
- The false Gods of Dada: on the perils of eclecticism
- Loose language: on Liam Gillick’s Industry and Intelligence
Sports writing:
- London baseball diary: the New York Yankees versus the Boston Red Sox
- In praise of Mats Zuccarello
- The elusive charm of the greatest New York Rangers
- A goaltender’s madness
Profiles and obituaries:
- ‘Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong': a profile of George Condo
- Irving Sandler: an obituary
- Why the process of painting never ends: on Brice Marden
- A cerebral matter: a profile of Eric Kandel
- Ellsworth Kelly: an obituary
- Sean Scully: the wanderer
- When history repeats: a profile of Glenn Ligon
Histories of violence:
- When mourning becomes its own reward: on Doris Salcedo
- Beautiful brutality: the splendors of violence at the Venice Biennale
- John Akomfrah and the dark side of history
Old Masters:
- Zurbarán, Jacob, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel at the Frick Collection
- How New York made Mondrian truly Modern
- On David Smith at Storm King
- On Keith Sonnier's impudent sculptures
- On the Ellsworth Kelly catalogue raisonné
Young Masters:
- Decadent decay: on Cyprien Gaillard
- Time to look: on Laura Owens at the Whitney
- On Danh Vo at the Guggenheim
- Small wonders: on Victoria Gitman
- Strangely unfamiliar: on Katharina Fritsch
Group exhibitions:
- Why people like to look at people
- On the 2018 Carnegie International
- On Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery
- Art, rebuttal, and the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition
Solo exhibitions:
- Is Matthew Barney becoming conventional?
- On Rona Pondick and ambiguity
- On Kiki Smith and the Jewish tradition
- Review: Robert Gober at Matthew Marks
- Subtle disorientations: on Peter Campus
- Straining for laughter: on Nathaniel Mellors
- What Gordon Matta-Clark learned in the Bronx
- On Walter Swennen at Gladstone Gallery
- Smoke on the water: on Andreas Schulze
- That poor sap dog: on William Wegman
- The way she was: on Jo Spence
- On Frank Stella’s decline
- Review: Julian Pretto Gallery
Book reviews:
- The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd’s writings
- 'Art too is just a way of living': on Rilke and Rodin
- On artificial darkness in art and theater
Writings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
- Unearthing Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh
- A poet's journey through Chinese autumn mountains
Two brief histories:
- A brief history of Constructivism
- A brief history of artists as curators