On the brutal, and very important, "20 Days in Mariupol" nytimes.com/2023/07/13/mov…

A good thing: I’m this week’s guest on the Martha Stewart podcast… 🍰 iheart.com/podcast/1119-t…

on the modern life of Blaise Cendrars, highlight of a lovely summer season at the Morgan nytimes.com/2023/08/03/art…

AN EXHIBITION OF GASOLINE POWERED ENGINES. On Ed Ruscha at MoMA, an immensity nytimes.com/2023/09/07/art…

🚨OLYMPIA HAS ARRIVED🚨 For our fall preview, it could only be “Manet/Degas” — and the courtesan, maid and cat taking a one-time-only trip to New York. (Closes with some breaking Victorine Meurent news!) nytimes.com/2023/09/09/art…

"Dear Mr Foe, At last I could row no further.…" Very glad to have been invited to write for the New York Times Books Essentials series on the books of J.M. Coetzee, morose master of my heart nytimes.com/article/jm-coe…

Evan Gershkovich appeared in court today in Moscow, and had his appeal denied yet again. He has now been held unjustly for more than six months. #freeEvan wsj.com/world/russia/r…

Notes on war photography in the 21st century; on the infrared surveillance camera vs. the everyday smartphone; on the poor image as weapon nytimes.com/2023/10/12/art…

Don’t fear algorithms that imitate humans; fear the reverse nytimes.com/2023/12/28/art…

To Roberta Smith, with awe and admiration: a treasured colleague for a decade, a critical model for a lifetime nytco.com/press/roberta-…

A note on Richard Serra, on the vanished 90s, on the torqued ellipses come September nytimes.com/2024/03/28/art…

Am Rande. A report from Berlin, whose cultural scene is in danger of losing something fundamental nytimes.com/2024/04/06/art…

A tattered coat upon a stick nytimes.com/2024/06/25/art…

Had a ball on this podcast, which asks each guest to name one theme that defines our age; my pick was stasis theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/24-stasis-ja…

a note on Matthew Barney, who somehow became the most underrated sculptor of the age nytimes.com/2024/07/23/art…

Gæða Wyrd swa hio scel (Fares Wyrd as she must) nytimes.com/2024/08/07/art…