WORDS

A portfolio of select publications

Featured

• New York magazine • Bohemian Rhapsody • Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, and the secret life of a building on the Bowery

• New York magazine • How Happenings Happened • Lucas Samaras revisits the first days of performance art

• New York Times • Unearthing a Celluloid Artifact of the ‘60s • Wynn Chamberlain and Brand X

• Art + Auction • In the Studio with Adrian Ghenie • The past is present—and never resolved—in the Romanian artist’s absorbing, ambiguous canvases

• The Aesthete • Koh My God • Inside the world white web of artist and provocateur Terence Koh

• ARTnews • Science Friction: Sci-Fi Gets Real • Interplanetary exploration, alien life, and living on the moon are among the themes obsessing artists who use science fiction to comment on matters closer to home

• Departures • Pier Paolo Calzolari’s U.S. Debut • Thanks to dealer Marianne Boesky, the Italian artist is exhibiting stateside

New York

• Bohemian Rhapsody • Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, and the secret life of a building on the Bowery

• Where the Radiant Baby Was Born • In a basement on St. Marks Place, Keith Haring became Keith Haring

• How Happenings Happened • Lucas Samaras revisits the first days of performance art

• Global Inflation • Under the High Line, David Byrne blows up the world

• Richard Artschwager Does More With Less • A profile of the late, great minimalist published shortly before his death

• Impressive • Louise Lawler photographs great art—then treats it like taffy

• A Townhouse Full of High-Art Smut • Naked Koons returns

• Dealer Wins Again • After 26 years in the business, Lisa Spellman’s 303 Gallery can still surprise you

• 112 Minutes with Francesco Bonami • The lead curator of the Whitney Biennial has a risky weekend habit: painting

• Fifty Years of Being Modern • Arne Glimcher keeps Pace

• Fear and Fancy • A Sue Williams retrospective celebrates her grotesquely comical vision

• The Newer Museum • Curator Massimiliano Gioni sees pleasure in the difficult

New York Times

• Unearthing a Celluloid Artifact of the ‘60s • Wynn Chamberlain and Brand X

• Room for Memories • Maya Zack’s “Living Room”

• A Homage to a Homage, Destruction at its Core • “Under Destruction” at Swiss Institute • Slide Show

ARTnews

• Science Friction: Sci-Fi Gets Real • Interplanetary exploration, alien life, and living on the moon are among the themes obsessing artists who use science fiction to comment on matters closer to home

• Cut-and-Paste Culture: The New Collage • Contemporary artists are updating the modernist tradition with new tactics and new media

• A Cornucopia of Contemporary Still Life • Artists are devising high-tech, high-concept updates to the traditional nature morte

• Keeping New Media New: Conserving High-Tech Art • Conservators are rushing to keep pace with technology as they find ways to extend the working lives of art made with code, VHS tapes, and other rapidly changing platforms

• When Storm is Collaborator • Personal loss has become subject and challenge for artists hit by disasters like Sandy and Katrina

Departures

• A Modern Man for Ancient Greece • Billionaire Dakis Joannou is single-handedly bankrolling the contemporary art scene of his homeland. But can culture save a nation in crisis?

• Pier Paolo Calzolari’s U.S. Debut • Thanks to dealer Marianne Boesky, the Italian artist is exhibiting stateside

• Love, Robert Indiana • An oral history of pop’s most famous four-letter word

• The Growing Old Masters Market • Raphael’s “Head of a Muse” sold for $47.9 million in 2009—and there is plenty more to come

• The Pop Art of Keith Haring • A new Haring retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum

• Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings • Gagosian Gallery breaks new ground by dedicating its entire empire to Hirst and his spots

• Alice’s Wonderland • With her Crystal Bridges museum, Alice Walton aims to put Bentonville, Arkansas, on the global art stage

Art + Auction

• In the Studio with Adrian Ghenie • The past is present—and never resolved—in the Romanian artist’s absorbing, ambiguous canvases

• In the Studio with Kerry James Marshall • Art-historical references mix seamlessly with sociopolitical commentary in the Chicago painter’s grand yet humble works

• In the Studio with Amy Sillman • She’s wrestled with form, figure, and especially, her materials

• In the Studio with Jules de Balincourt • An artist who has captured the art world’s attention with a painterly language that careens between the abstract and the representational, the playful and the political

Modern Painters

• A Tale of Two Sisters • Ofri Cnaani mines the Talmud

• Map of Her World • Zarina Hashmi traces a rich journey

• Into Parts Unknown • Daniel Richter changes his tune

• Sinister Parade • Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s wicked birds land at the New Museum

• Perfect Recall • A painter’s abstract hyperrealism

Cultured

• Urban Decay • Rachel Feinstein talks “Folly,” fantasy and mining the past

• New York State of Mind • Dan Colen, one of the city’s pioneering downtown artists of this century, moves into a sprawling Brooklyn studio and is the focus of a new solo show at the Brant Foundation

Wall Street Journal

• Bringing Work Back to Artworks • After decades, artists and museums from Minneapolis to Miami refocus on labor

• Wu Guanzhong • A master riffs on centuries of Chinese art

Miscellaneous Articles

• The Aesthete • Koh My God • Inside the world white web of artist and provocateur Terence Koh

• Elle • The Fresh Makers • They perform. They paint. They move and shake—and they’re all under 35. Meet the next generation of art-world power players

• Architectural Digest • The Bold Paintings of Mickalene Thomas • Exploring notions of self, the artist draws on traditions from Pointillism to Pop Art to create striking portraits and paintings of interiors

• Architectural Digest • Rediscovering the singularly surreal Pop Art paintings of Domenico Gnoli

• Architectural Digest • Jason Middlebrook’s Captivating Wood Paintings • Inspired by the natural splendor of upstate New York, the artist forges a fresh creative path

• Blackbook • Portrait of a Collector

• Condé Nast Traveler • Meet the Renaissance Men Behind America’s Hottest New Hotels

• Details • Why Every A-Lister Wants to Be an Art Star • Hollywood is giving new meaning to the saying “you ought to be in pictures”

• Details • The Art of Collecting • Who to know. What to buy. Where to get it. How to show it.

• Town & Country • Second Life • Willem de Kooning’s latest retrospective invites a reconsideration of his much-maligned late paintings

• Town & Country • Emin Inc. • Britain’s original bad girl artist is back with a new retrospective, a new business, and a new (sort of ) attitude

• Town & Country • Modern Master • Stanley Spencer gets his (second) day in the sun

• Town & Country • The Essential Guide to Auctions

Miscellaneous Book Publications

• Lévy Gorvy: Intimate Infinite • A conversation with Brett Gorvy

• The Wellin Museum • Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné

• R & Company • Jeff Zimmerman (primary text/essay)

• Museum für Gegenwartskunst: The More I Draw • Dasha Shishkin (essay)