Messages
8/2/2022
12 : 4
Hard No
The art market hits a new low and only we can stop it.
7/27/2022
12 : 14
Make Sure To Do Nothing
To take better care of artists, we must embrace the natural rhythms of a creative practice
7/19/2022
12 : 14
Rich People Are Doing It Wrong
Adventures in late-stage art speculation (and re-imagining what collecting can be)
7/14/2022
10 : 44
I wrote you another letter
This one's about something to hold onto.
7/5/2022
12 : 14
I Was Here
Who gets to be seen?
6/21/2022
12 : 14
An Artist Speaks to the Moment
My conversation with artist Holly Ballard Martz, whose work—spanning many years—seems impossibly timely, urgent, and reflective of this moment.
6/14/2022
12 : 14
More is More
In the spring of 2020, the art world was quick to adopt accessibility measures. Now they're going away because white nondisabled people don't need them anymore.
6/7/2022
12 : 14
What Makes Something Art?
Or is the better question: What makes someone an artist?
5/31/2022
12 : 14
Telling the Story of Absence
How do you put together the pieces of something that was never there?
5/24/2022
12 : 4
A Dentist, a Lawyer, and a Pilot Walk into a Bar
I wish this was a joke. But it's actually a story about how little we value art and artists.
5/17/2022
12 : 4
Against a Sharp White Background
In order for white artists to be able to address white supremacy in our work, we must address it in our lives.
5/10/2022
12 : 4
The Push and Pull of Art and Life
The difference between a Western hand saw and a Japanese hand saw is a lesson that still serves me in life as much as it did in class.
5/4/2022
12 : 14
A Place Where Nothing Is As It Seems
When I set out to review the unauthorized Banksy exhibition—slated for a mutli-city run—I knew it would be complicated to write about. But I didn't anticipate that it would be this complicated.
4/26/2022
12 : 4
Paintings to Heal Our Broken Places
When I tell people that art is my religion, this is what I mean.
4/20/2022
12 : 4
Do We Collect Them Or Do They Collect Us?
Everything I believe about the value and accessibility of collecting, and everything I find meaningful about the pursuit, can be seen and felt within this gallery.
4/12/2022
12 : 4
This Is Not a Yes or No Question
What do we do when the things we love come from a bad place?
4/5/2022
14 : 34
Who Is Criticism For?
We need to have a reckoning about the specific purpose of art criticism at this moment in time.
3/29/2022
12 : 4
The Best View in the House
Museum guards have perhaps the greatest insight of anyone in the art world into the direct connection between maker and viewer.
3/22/2022
12 : 4
On Artist Statements (for artists and non-artists alike)
Imagine someone asking you to distill your life's purpose and philosophy in under 300 words. It's nearly impossible. And yet, artists are asked to do it all the time.
3/16/2022
12 : 4
A Long Answer to Your Short Question
A reader asks how new art collectors can figure out the true value of something they're interested in buying.