Archive • Johanna Fateman • Buttondown

November 21, 2025

I’ll write and publish a full diary of my trip to Poland in the new year, I think (less than a day in, I’ve met so many people and it’s all been very...

New Reviews + 2 Events Coming Up

November 12, 2025

Alex Da Corte, The Tomb, 2025. Image courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. © Alex Da Corte Just quickly: Here’s my “walking tour” of Chelsea shows featuring...

Diane Severin Nguyen's 'WAR SONGS'

October 22, 2025

Diane Severin Nguyen, 2025. I was honored to get to attend a rehearsal for Diane Severin Nguyen’s PERFORMA2025 commission. (Band practice! It brought up lots...

Juliana Halpert and Gregg Bordowitz for TCT

October 16, 2025

First of all, great news, The Critics’ Table is now included in CULTURED’s 5-free-articles-a-month situation! And if there are more than five things you’d...

David Rimanelli on Nayland Blake for TCT

October 3, 2025

Installation view of “Nayland Blake: Session,” Matthew Marks Gallery, 2025. All images courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. © Nayland Blake...

That NY Magazine Article, New TCT just dropped!

October 1, 2025

To celebrate the first anniversary of The Critic’s Table, use the code ONEYEAR to subscribe! New York Magazine also honored the milestone (not intentionally)...

90 Minutes on UES and GIFT LINKS

September 24, 2025

Alix Cléo Roubaud, untitled, c. 1979. Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz. Soon, the Critics’ Table (along with the rest of Cultured’s online magazine) will allow...

A Tour Diary link that works, I hope

September 15, 2025

Sorry for the bad link! And thanks for letting me know. Try this: https://cookiejar.artswriters.org/cookiejar [dot] artswriters [dot] org or search for...

My Le Tigre Tour Diary

September 15, 2025

My pamphlet Your Critique is Superficial: A Le Tigre Tour Diary, which I wrote about my band’s 2023 reunion performances, was just published by the Warhol...

Ambera Wellmann, September Diary, an Event

September 10, 2025

My profile of painter Ambera Wellmann for CULTURED is here, and my New York Art Week Diary is here. The Armory Show, obviously Other diary topics, cameos,...

The Crisis in Criticism. Wrong Answers Only.

August 11, 2025

I was traveling when 4Columns published the group of manifestos that five critics read aloud at a standing-room-only event at KGB bar in March, and so I...

Matthew Barney's Wild West, Dinner Parties, and More

August 6, 2025

Matthew Barney, TACTICAL parallax, 2025. Photography by Maria Baranova and courtesy of Barney and Aspen Art Museum. Here is the diary that I mentioned I...

Issy Wood, Aspen, Pat Steir, Medieval Dublin

July 31, 2025

I just got back from Anderson Ranch last night, where I spoke with my new friend, the fascinating painter-writer-musician Issy Wood. You can watch our...

Hot Girl(s for Zohran) Summer, Summer of Zohran, What Are We Calling This Season?

June 25, 2025

Lisa Yuskavage’s drawing show opens at the Morgan Library on Friday, and to mark the occasion, CULTURED has produced a limited-edition cover for the summer...

Livestream Link, Aspen, Two Recommendations

June 5, 2025

The Studio Demo session with The Critics’ Table and Ajay Kurian is at 4:30 tomorrow, 6/6, and will be livestreamed and archived here. For more thinking on...

Events, Art Reviews, TCT, a Podcast, a PDF

May 29, 2025

June 6th (details to come), as part of the New Museum’s event series at Water Street Projects, Ajay Kurian, John Vincler, and I will be talking about art and...

The Stettheimer Dollhouse, Anne Imhof

April 23, 2025

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

April 2, 2025

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

March 25, 2025

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...