A Gift Link for Jarrett Earnest on Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Je tends les bras, 1932. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections It’s been a great summer so far at the Critics’ Table if...
A Gift Link for David Rimanelli on Paul Thek
Paul Thek, Untitled (Dragons), 1971. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz. Just a quick note with David Rimanelli’s latest for the Critics’ Table, a beautiful piece on...
"House of Criticism" (the new Jerry & Roberta Documentary)
Yes, Alison Chernick’s portrait of critics Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, which premiered over the weekend, is a hagiographic Double Gulp...
72 Hours in Venice and Two Events Next Week
Pussy Riot, Dries Van Noten, and so much art: I’m still recovering from my gin-tasting Biennale trip! Read about it in my latest diary. On Tuesday, May 19,...
A Conversation with Lynne Tillman, a Bucharest Diary, Dog Days
Lynne Tillman reads from Paying Attention. Photo: Tom Scanlan. Last week, for an intimate Critics’ Table event at Coco’s, Lynne and I talked about her new...
Another Event (with Paul P.) and a Gallery Guide
Come celebrate this beautiful monograph of Paul P.’s work in May! If you are around tomorrow, I’ll be talking with another painter, Sascha Braunig, at...
Two Events and a quick Greater New York review
Next week, on Friday, April 24, I will discuss Sascha Braunig’s work with her at Magenta Plains, where her show “Cauldron” is currently on view. Email the...
Just one sentence!
My favorite piece yet for the Critics’ Table? Quality and quantity—and brevity. I’m so pleased to publish the best writers, if I do say so myself, on some...
"New Humans" at the New New Museum
View of 235 Bowery. Photo by Jason O’Rear.Courtesy of New Museum. I wrote about the New Museum’s grand reopening last week. I like the controversial OMA-...
Here comes (my review of) THE BRIDE!
What a pleasure it is, always, to write for 4Columns. Whatever the subject. Enjoy my rare foray into film criticism, edited by the great Melissa Anderson....
An Award Nomination, a New Review
Did you hear that I’m an ASME finalist? For three pieces I wrote for Cultured? A piece on Cameron Rowland’s DIA show, my Aspen diary, and my account of the...
I talked to Peaches!
Peaches’s new album is out next week, and I got emotional, nostalgic even, catching up with her about it.
Jarrett Earnest on Charli XCX, More Joan Semmel
Charli XCX in The Moment, dir. Aidan Zamiri The Critics’ Table expands coverage to include pop phenomena with Jarrett on the conceptual denouement of...
Sam McKinniss on Helene Schjerfbeck, Ajay Kurian on Marguerite Humeau...
For the Critics' Table Upper East Side Guide: I wrote about Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum, Sam McKinniss reviewed Helen Schjerfbeck at the Met, and Ajay Kurian wrote about Marguerite Humean at White Cube.
A Free Link for "4 Days in Feminist Warsaw"
Good morning! I’ve gotten a few messages from people unable to access my diary. It seems that, usually, if you log out and then log back in to Cultured / the...
New Diary! 4 Days in Feminist Warsaw
For the Critics’ Table, I wrote, at some length, about my November trip to attend the openings of “The Woman Question 1550–2025,” curated by Alison M....
2025 in Review
Salman Toor’s 2007 portrait of Zohran Mamdani. Image courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, and Thomas Dane Gallery. Not a top ten, best/worst, or in/out...
Hello from Warsaw!
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
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'
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...