Christian Walker, from The Theater Project, 1983-84. Gelatin silver print. 11 x 14 in.
Essays
“Elegant Company: The Ramble, 1968-69,” with Arthur Tress, published in The Baffler, no. 76, November 2024
“Portraits of Life after Death,” published in Art in America, Fall 2024
“Finding Belonging on the Sidelines of Pride,” with Bruce Cratsley, published in The New York Times (online), June 29, 2024
“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
“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 - winner of the 2023 “Writing Photography” award from the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie
“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
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Book Criticism
“Shellburne Thurber’s Analysis,” published in The Brooklyn Rail, May 1, 2024
“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
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Art Criticism
“At Boston Cyberarts Gallery, ‘Plastic Image Retrospective’ Reflects on When Xerox Machines Were Avant-Garde,” published in Boston Art Review (online), October 22, 2024
“Jay Critchley Provocatively Pairs Patriotism with Queerness at SPOKE Gallery,” published in Boston Art Review (online), June 25, 2024
“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