Criticism

Christian Walker, from The Theater Project, 1983-84. Gelatin silver print. 11 x 14 in.

Essays

A Screenwriter’s Forgotten Photographs of American Televisions,” published in Aperture (online), November 16, 2023

Two Lovers,” published in The Baffler (online), September 7, 2023

The House on Grafton Street,” published in The Boston Globe Magazine, March 12, 2023

The Book of Saint Phalles,” published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, April 12, 2022

Seeing Holes,” published in The Baffler (online), November 10, 2021

Arthur Tress’s Photographs of School Life Adjourned,” published in Artforum (online), October 14, 2021

The Healing Museum,” published in Art in America, September/October 2021

Against Our Vanishing,” published in The Baffler (online), July 12, 2021

Where to Have Sex in an Epidemic,” published in Urban Omnibus, January 6, 2021

How AIDS Activists Queered Christmas,” published in X-TRA (online), December 21, 2020

Museums and Mourning in COVID-19,” published in Boston Review (online), December 1, 2020

Polaroid’s History through Two Lenses: One Sanitized, One Playful,” published in Art in America, May 2020

Art Criticism

Joel-Peter Witkin at Bruce Silverstein Gallery,” published in Artforum, February 2023

Fire and Ice: Marc Swanson at Mass MoCA and Thomas Cole National Historic Site,” published in Art in America (online), December 15, 2022

Mary Ann Unger at the Williams College Museum of Art,” published in Artforum, November 2022

From Protest to Rest: Joshua Rashaad McFadden at the George Eastman Museum,” published in Art in America, September 2022

One Work: Andrea Bowers’s ‘Letters to an Army of Three,’” published in Art in America (online), August 25, 2022

Webs of Relation: Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe at the Museum of Arts and Design,” published in Art in America, May 2022

Critic’s Pick: Barkley L. Hendricks at the Rose Art Museum,” published in Artforum (online), April 2022

Sreshta Rit Premnath’s Meditations on Makeshift Sites,” published in frieze, January 2022

An Artist Finds Inspiration in an Inherited Archive of African American Culture,” published in Hyperallergic, January 16, 2022

Michael Richards’s Musings on Black Masculinity,” published in frieze, November/December 2021

I Thought I Saw a Pussy Cat: Talia Chetrit at Hannah Hoffman,” published in Art in America (online), August 5, 2021

Outsize Symbols: Sonya Clark at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,” published in Art in America, July/August 2021

‘Boston’s Apollo’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,” published in Art in America (online), May 11, 2020