Archive • Johanna Fateman • Buttondown

The Stettheimer Dollhouse, Anne Imhof

The Stettheimer Dollhouse Ballroom during the cleaning of Carrie’s art collection, with only Duchamp’s miniature version (c. 1925) of his Nude Descending a...

New for TCT: Jarrett Earnest on Harmony Hammond

Harmony Hammond, "FRINGE" (Installation View), Site Santa Fe, 2025. I’m so happy to share Jarrett Earnest’s essay on the great Harmony Hammond this morning,...

Manifestos, My Archive, Cecily Brown, Lynne Tillman

Criticism, as a genre of writing and an institution, such as it is, may survive for some years yet—in some form—as a pastime, a “side gig,” and as a death...

Laura Owens. For Me It's About the Wallpaper.

February 27, 2025

Installation view of "Laura Owens," Matthew Marks Gallery. Photography by Annik Wetter. Image courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. My review of...

An-My Lê and More

February 12, 2025

For TCT, I wrote about An-My Lê at Marian Goodman (excerpt below), Zito Madu (author of The Minotaur at Calle Lanza) reviewed American Artist’s Pioneer Works...

Cameron Rowland

January 30, 2025

I’ve wanted to write about Rowland’s art since I first encountered it, ten years ago, but somehow it never worked out. Now, I’m kind of glad that I had to...

Angelic Transmissions, Andrea Dworkin, an Epic PDF

January 13, 2025

Today, Monday, January 13, I’ll chat with critic and curator Jarrett Earnest, who I love, on Angelic Transmissions, his radio show collaboration with Leigha...

Marlon Mullen, Immersive Experiences, More

January 9, 2025

Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2016. Acrylic on canvas. 36 × 36″ (91.4 × 91.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis in...

Until Next Year

December 27, 2024

Marie Laurencin, La femme-cheval (The Woman-Horse), 1918, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. First of all, thank you to everyone who...

"You actually are Pamela Anderson."

December 19, 2024

Sarah Cwynar, Steve McQueen, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Raven Chacon, Juliana Halpert, Morgan Bassichis

TCT's 2024 Art Book Picks

December 13, 2024

First of all, thank you for signing up. If you have a friend who might want to receive these emails, please forward this. (I’m trying to get off Instagram,...

The Quiet Parts, the Loud Parts, & a PDF

December 12, 2024

Today for TCT, co-chief art critic John Vincler reviews Pippa Garner at Matthew Brown, Lee Mary Manning at CANADA, and Matthew Barney and Alex Katz at...

Ajay Kurian Responds to Dean Kissick’s Clickbait Manifesto for Harper’s

December 4, 2024

Dear Readers, I’m so pleased to publish this substantive response to Kissick’s piece (“The Painted Protest”) on the Critics’ Table at CULTURED. The full...

Three Gallery Reviews & a Secret Link

December 2, 2024

Paul P., Jes Fan, and Sue Williams