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Essays
"On Art After Risk," Spike
"The Seekers: Religion and Contemporary Art," The New York Times
"Want to Succeed as an Artist? Click Here: Coaching for Artists," The New York Times
"Tea Party Report," The Baffler Blog
"The Ultracontemporaries," Spike
"Rat Kings of New York," The Baffler Blog
"Land Art Today, Beyond Cowboys and Bulldozers," The New York Times
"Euro Trash: Waste Management in Italy," TANK
"Feature: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres at the Bronx Museum," The New York Times
"Surreal Things," Art in America
"Into the Sun of Sadness: Bas Jan and Greta," East of Borneo
"The Spirit of '70," Affidavit
"Building Open Doors: Fiona Connor," essay for the monograph '+1 310 951 9459'
"Her Body, Her Self: Amalia Ulman," in the monograph Privilege, YT Pictures (Mandarin)
"American Psyche," catalog essay for Psyche and Politics, Luisa Hesse / SK Baden Baden
"Who Can Live Forever: Liz Glynn," essay for the monograph 'Objects and Actions,' Mass MOCA
"JP|Ringier and their Artists," X-TRA
"Soylent Beige: The Middle Grey of Taste," e-flux journal
"Checkmate, Atheists: Intention and Ambiguity in Contemporary Art," Affidavit
"The Other Wall: Ronald Rael's Borderwall As Architecture," X-TRA
"white-wall white," East of Borneo
"A Concrete Worm: Philip K. Dick's Art of Truth," Art Papers
"Kanye Westworld," CARLA
"Hell Heats Up, But There's Still Room: How the New York Times Covers Los Angeles Art," The Art Los Angeles Reader
"Animalaise," Art Papers
"Stationary Orbit of a Black Hole: Trevor Paglen, Christopher Nolan, and the Power of Love," The Art LA Reader
"After Jeff Koons: A Retrospective," Los Angeles Review of Books
"A/The//Grid/Work: Charles Gaines," X-TRA
"RES / LES / LEDs," X-TRA
"The Jack Box Death Trip," East of Borneo
"Universal Steel: Mark di Suvero, Occupy Wall Street, and the Artists' Tower of Protest," East of Borneo
"Spiralogues," Golden Spike Press

Columns
"Obituary: Alexis Smith," The New York Times
"Year of the Horse," Cultured
"Propaganda with an Ambiguous Message? That’s Art." The New York Times
"Soup & Tart 2K3," Artforum.com
"Martin Wong’s Green Gates of Perception," Frieze
"Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance: ‘The Exhibit’ on MTV," The New York Times
"Mimicking the 19th Century in the Age of AI," The New York Times
"Why Is a Day Job the Mark of an Artist’s Failure?" The New York Times
"Girls Visions Everything: 'Same Old Paradise' by Alexis Smith," Artforum
"Facing Violence with Ballots and Brushes: The Art of January 6," The New York Times
"The Dove of Criticism: A Photo Manifesto," Objektiv
"Practical Magic: On Art, Money, and Metaphor," Art-Agenda
"Enter the Neoliberal Hellscape of Conner O'Malley," Garage
"Skins Within: Ed Atkins, Sondra Perry, Ian Cheng," Art-Agenda
"Notes on the conditions of photographic display," Objektiv
"Memelord as Critic: Brad Troemel and his Memes," Art in America
"The Cross on the Cross," MANA Contemporary
"Seven-Minute Dream Machine: Jordan Wolfson's Female Figure," CARLA 15
"Rabbit Rabbit: Reflections in a Koons," Garage
"I shit on your graves: Mathieu Malouf, Gary Indiana, Luke Turner" CARLA 16
"Lynch in Traffic," CARLA 14
"Waiting for Teargas: Hong Kong," Art-Agenda
"The Ambassadors: Dennis Rodman and this Golden and Hellish Age of Celebrity-Dominated Politics," Garage
"Proto-Walls: The Border Wall Prototypes and Smithson's New Monuments," Garage
"Distributed DISsent," Frieze Online
"His Emails: Kenneth Goldsmith on Hillary Clinton," Frieze Online
"On Laura Owens on Laura Owens," CARLA 11
"2049 Cigarettes: Smoking in Blade Runner," Garage
"AHF/FGT: These STD-Check Billboards Are Going Viral," Garage
"The Drop Shadow of Doubt: Laura Owens and Lutz Bacher," X-TRA
"A Response to Nizan Shaked," X-TRA
"Op-Ed: An Ultra-red Line," X-TRA
"Us & Them, Now & Then: Reconstituting Group Material," CARLA 9
"Cosmic Thing: KNOWLEDGES at the Mount Wilson Observatory," Artforum.com
"Selling Nothing: Stan Douglas's Monodramas," Objektiv
"White Lee, Black Lee," CARLA 2
"Spaces: The Shipping Container," Art-Agenda
"Meditations on a Diptych," The Brooklyn Rail
"From I Love Dick to Louie: TV on Art," The Guardian
"Crystal Visions: "State of the Art" at Crystal Bridges," Artforum.com
"Networked Television: KCHUNG TV at the Hammer Museum," Artforum.com
"Desert Bust: Oliver Payne at 356 S Mission Rd.," Artforum.com
"East of Eden: DTLA," Artforum.com
"How the West Was Won: Doug Aitken's Station to Station," Artforum.com
"Flyover Country: The First Annual NYC Drone Film Festival," Artforum.com
"Office Romance: CLUI's On-Site Office Trailers Architecture Tour," Artforum.com
"Billions y Billions," Artforum.com
"No, George W. Bush's Paintings Tell Us Nothing About Iraq," Salon

Interviews & Profiles
"Paul Pfeiffer," The New York Times
"Profile: Alex Da Corte," CURA
"Profile: Mire Lee," Spike
"Profile: Aria Dean," Plaster
"Profile: Diego Marcon," CURA
"New Red Order," The New York Times
"Interview: Peter and Sally Saul," Cultured
"Profile: Gary Simmons," Frieze
"Interview: Henry Taylor," Artforum.com
"Aura Rosenberg’s Art of Collaboration," The New York Times
"Ed Ruscha’s Chocolate Room Still Tantalizes," The New York Times
"Ser Serpas Sculpts with Trash," The New York Times
"Interview: David Hartt," Artforum.com
"The Many Lives of Martine Syms," The New York Times
"Buck Ellison's Great White Society," The New York Times
"Interview: Emma Stern," Artforum.com
"Profile: Pippa Garner," The Financial Times
"Interview: Isaac Julien," PIN UP
"Interview: Jacolby Satterwhite," Art-Agenda
"Interview: Kenjiro Okazaki," Frieze
"Interview: Julien Nguyen," Artforum.com
"Profile: Kissing Through a Bullet Hole: Alexandra Noel," Mousse
"Interview: Rindon Johnson," Artforum.com
"Interview: Aria Dean on Designing an Anti-Monument," Frieze
"Interview: Piece Piece: Allan McCollum," X-TRA
"Profile: Spiritual Coroner: Gala Porras-Kim," CARLA 20
"Interview: Todd Gray," Aperture Online
"Interview: Candice Lin," Artforum.com
"Interview: Cauleen Smith," East of Borneo
"Cady Came Home: Cady Noland at MMK," conversation with Rasmus Røhling, X-TRA Online
"Interview: Terry Allen," Artforum.com
"Interview: Luo Yang," Objektiv
"Interview: Frank Benson," catalog text, Astrup Fearnley Museet
"Interview: Aria Dean, Going Formal" X-TRA Online
"Profile: Norm Laich, The LA Artworld's Gun for Hire," Frieze Online
"Profile: her Body, her Self: Amalia Ulman," CURA. 28
"Interview: Marina Pinsky and Carter Mull," Objektiv #17
"Profile: Torbjørn Rødland," Aperture, Fall 2018
"Interview: Dena Yago," Garage
"500 Words: Harry Gamboa Jr.," Artforum.com
"Land Rites: On Rafa Esparza," Frieze
"Interview: Candice Lin," WAX Magazine 8
"Put On a Happy Face: On Dynasty Handbag," CARLA 7
"Interview: Thom Andersen," Artforum.com
"Interview: Tacita Dean," Aperture
"Profile: Lazaros," Frieze
"Interview: Yoshua Okon," Artforum.com
"Interview: Judith Bernstein," Artforum.com
"Interview: Alice Könitz," Artforum.com

Misc
Four Poems, Forever
"Building 7," for Isabel Yellin at M.LeBlanc
"Michigander, Michigoose," text for The Journey, curated by Maria Petchnig
"C.D.C. by F.C.," wall text for Closed Down Clubs by Fiona Connor, Mackey Apartments/MAK Center
"one pill, two pill; red pill, blue pill," Text for Home Bodies, curated by Emma Kemp
"Prop 65 (The Sick Table): Table Breath by Nick Kramer," Ours is a City of Writers
"Light Industrial Pastoral," Laurel Doody Newsletter, February 25, 2016
"Lust for Cassady," on the occasion of 'Hall of Flowers' by Matt Siegle, Anthony Greaney, Boston
"On Psychic Hallway: One Year Among the Fencers," Night Papers 3
"Lit d'Ombre" in Writing for Dormatories, catalog accompanying Trouble Rainbow II, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles
"Through a Prism of Reality," catalog essay for United Communities by Nicolas Grenier, Art Mur, Montreal, Quebec
"The Park," on the occasion of Above About Aboard Across After Against by Greg Hayes, Anthony Greaney, Boston
"THE END CLUB," Public Fiction 3
"To Sip an Ocean," P&Co. (JOAN)

Curatorial
Maria Petschnig and Ben Borden, exhibition co-curated with Makayla Bailey and Erin Calla Watson, As It Stands, Los Angeles, CA
"Scales," screening co-curated with Erin Calla Watson, Leroy's, Los Angeles, CA
"'Jack's Back' & Other Commercials," screening, metro pcs, Los Angeles, CA
Videos
Three White Soldiers, curated by Chiara Giovando, Skogen, Gotenborg
Cinema Reset, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
"Shadow Spills," Solo, Tif's Desk, Los Angeles, CA
Digital Moving Images Festival, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
Pixilerations 8, RISDI, Portland, RI
"Walk thru Walls," Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MA
Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Readings & Lectures
Conversation with Gary Simmons, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Scribe Tribe, organized by Lily Lady, Nublu, New York, NY
"LARB Presents: I Will Not Publish Any More Boring Art," panel at Frieze LA moderated by Kate Wolf, Los Angeles, CA
"A Snake Whistles (Three American Poems)," with Bruce Hainley, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Bombs with Bodies: Nancy Spero's War Series," Potts, Alhambra, CA
"War with Bodies," The Box, Los Angeles, CA
"Travis Diehl and Rasmus Røhling In Conversation," SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
"Spiralogues," Classroom at Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
The Foreign Correspondant, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
"Love and Truth," panel at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Artists Read Baldessari, Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Five Points Reading Series, Workspace, Los Angeles, CA
Sumarr Reading Series, Lancaster, CA
The Abstraction of Commerce: Halley to Sekula, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Honors
Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism
Artist in Residence, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Critic in Residence, Otis College of Art and Design
Danish Arts Council International Research Grant, Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Faculty, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Editorial Board, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly
Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Artist in Residence, ISLAND, Bellaire, MI

Last Update 8.11.24