My Le Tigre Tour Diary
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
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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."
Sarah Cwynar, Steve McQueen, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Raven Chacon, Juliana Halpert, Morgan Bassichis
TCT's 2024 Art Book Picks
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
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...