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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