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*Especially* if you recall watching the art history program FEITELSON ON ART on television.
Or if you are looking to get rid of issues or imitations of Foxfire, private press 45s from the American South, issues or imitations of the Whole Earth Catalog, a half-frame Konica Recorder or AutoReflex, or old QSL cards.(If you’re paywalled out of something you want to read, write me.)
On the political resituation of American art museums. Apollo, 2025. On AI photo generators. NY Times Book Review, 2025. On painting and the personal screen: NBC’s Feitelson on Art, 1956-63. T: The Style Magazine, 2024. On Kris Kristofferson, William Blake, and the anti-blues. Poetry Foundation, 2024.On herd mentality and Neal Slavin’s civic photography. NY Times Book Review, 2024.
On drone photography and the global scale. NY Times, 2024. On the new neoclassicism in political art. NY Times, 2024. On Ted Joans and Black surrealism. New York Review of Books, 2024.On James Baldwin’s conflicts. NY Times, 2024.
On the Harlem Renaissance and the question of influence. TLS, 2024.
On the politics and play of Philip Guston’s teenage cartoons. NY Times, 2024.
On the founding lawsuit of abstract art. Hyperallergic, 2024.
On Cormac McCarthy and marine biology. NY Times Book Review, 2024.
On Cormac McCarthy and Southern guilt. n+1, 2024.
On early AI art. TLS, 2024.
On Isabella Stewart Gardner and trauma hoarding. Boston Globe, 2024.
On the promise and pitfalls of Luna Luna, Hamburg’s art amusement park. NY Times, 2024.
On the political genius of William Blake’s prints. NY Times, 2023.
On modernism in Southern American painting. NY Times, 2023.
On Evelyn Hofer’s travel photography. New York Review of Books, 2023.
On Coenties Slip and painting after Abstract Expressionism. NY Times Book Review, 2023.
On William Edmondson’s invigoration of American sculpture. New York Review of Books, 2023.
On Krazy & Ignatz and passing. NY Times Book Review, 2023.
On the death of the word “please.” (I got sick of seeing it in emails.) The Atlantic, 2023.
On John Dryden’s bad manners. New Criterion, 2023.
On Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s poverty paintings. NY Times, 2023.
On colonial Spanish art. NY Times, 2022.
On Cy Twombly’s sense of humor. NY Times, 2022.
Interview with Richard Cohen, historian’s historian. The Nation, 2022.
On the Morgan’s rediscovery of beatnik draughtsman Rick Barton. NY Times, 2022.
On French sculpture, slavery, and radical chic. The Guardian, 2022.
On Saul Steinberg’s carpentry. New York Review of Books, 2022.
On illustrating the poet Thomas Gray. Apollo, 2022.
On Nicholas Thirkell, guru of conceptual book design. The Guardian, 2022.
On the first Haitian refugees to America. The Washington Post, 2021.
On Charley Pride and country music in Northern Ireland. The Guardian, 2021.
On CLR James, Eric Williams, and abolition in the Caribbean. The Jacobin, 2021.
On the Oz magazine obscenity trial of 1971. The Guardian, 2021. (Coda.)
On what Covid did to editorial illustration. Varoom, 2021.
On Bush Hollyhead, the Robert Fripp of illustrators. Eye, 2020.
