The spring 2026 issue of Raw Vision magazine includes my feature on artist Margaret Mousseau, a self-taught artist who uses intricate colored pencil drawings to reflect on her life. You can find the full piece in the print issue and read an excerpt online:

Each work is layered with pattern and detail that draw a viewer in to notice things entwined in the scene, like the tendril of some otherworldly flora or the multicoloured body of a bird. Her spontaneous style gives the feeling that these drawings are still transforming as she responds to both joyful and haunting experiences of the past and present. “My way to deal is to try and draw a feeling,” explains Mousseau.

On Monday, April 20, I’ll be giving an online talk for Morbid Anatomy on the art of the dance of death. Learn about how in times of uncertainty and calamity, the danse macabre has resurrected again and again. From Hans Holbein’s playful mocking of the elite to Alfred Rethel’s 19th-century meditations on cholera, to haunting etchings of World War II by Percy Smith, this mortal dance has persisted in our visual culture. And still now, its bony hand beckons us to join in its endless waltz as artists find new ways to interpret it in the 21st century. Register here!

In my first feature for Apollo magazine, I reported on how the Asia Society is marking its 70th year. You can read the story online and in print:

When John D. Rockefeller III founded the Asia Society in New York in 1956, many Americans associated Asian countries with war and political upheaval. … He felt that art and culture were powerful conduits for developing what he called “person-to-person” experiences. “Good relations on this level are necessary if we are to strengthen friendship bonds with that region of the world,” he said in an interview with the International News Service in 1957.

For the winter 2025/26 issue of Raw Vision magazine, I wrote a feature on artist Leroy Johnson. The full story is in print with an excerpt shared online. The late Johnson transformed discarded materials he found on the streets of Philadelphia into complex sculptural works that tell the stories of Black life.

For Prattfolio, the magazine of Pratt Institute, I talked with people from across the field of architecture about the opportunities and challenges of AI in their work. The story is out now online and in print.

Did you know there is publicly viewable 800-year-old cave art in Tennessee? I wrote about Dunbar Cave for the Art Newspaper and how it’s being conserved after historic flooding, while also preparing it for more extreme storms in the future. Read all about it here.

There’s now a colossal head in Miami Beach commemorating the overlooked history of women’s service in the Coast Guard during WWII. It was sculpted by artist Prune Nourry. I spoke to Nourry about the project for the Art Newspaper, read all about it here.

I wanted to make some smaller zines for fun timed with the Halloween season. These try out something I haven’t before which is folding one page into a 14-page little booklet. The selected spooky topics are L’Inconnue, the drowned muse of Paris; the protective lore of witch bottles; and mortsafes, made to safeguard against graverobbing. You can find them all on my Etsy!

I contributed to Tree Speech’s podcast “The Trees Remember: Tales from the Haunted Grove” with a haunting tale of why mulberries are red. Listen to the episode here!

For the Art Newspaper, I reported on a new gallery of ancient art 100 years in the making at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. It was collected by John Ringling of the Ringling Bros circus. Read the story here.

I joined US Modernist Radio for an interview on the Modernist New York Map I worked on with Blue Crow Media. Listen to the discussion on all things modernism in the city and why maps are great!

I spent much of this year on a project for the American Folk Art Museum rethinking biographies for “outsider” artists and I’m proud these are now coming online! It was inspiring in this time of undervaluing human creativity to commune with those who made their own paths. You can explore them here.

For the Art Newspaper, I reported on how the National Trust for Historic Preservation is supported Black churches in the US, from preservation projects to augmented reality experiences. Read online and in print!

There’s a brand new map for your summer wanders! I worked on the Modernist New York Map with Blue Crow Media that guides you to over 50 sites across the five boroughs, from sleek skyscrapers to futuristic churches, and has beautiful photographs by Jason Woods. It was fun to do the writing and research for this and consider the city from the point of view of its 1930s-60s era of design with all its glass curtains and sculptural concrete. I made a lot of discoveries I was previously unaware of, like work by New York’s first licensed Black architect Vertner Woodson Tandy, and the Transportation Building in Brooklyn that I always overlooked as kind of drab but turns out was once on the cutting edge of design.

This is my fourth (!) map with Blue Crow Media, following Concrete New York, Art Deco New York, and Great Trees of New York, and you can get them all in an NYC set. May they encourage you to explore the world near you!

I reported for the Art Newspaper on an 18th-century house in Brooklyn that is becoming its neighborhood’s first museum. As a bonus it links salt marshes to the rise of NYC. Read all about it here!

The summer issue of Fine Books & Collections magazine that I edited is now out! There are stories on poisonous books (no surprise I wrote that one), the secret art of letterlocking, literary travels in Portugal, road trip photography, and so much more. I’m extra proud of how this one turned out.

I was an honor to be invited up to Buffalo to be the keynote speaker for Forest Lawn Cemetery’s 175th celebrations. I also helped lead a trolley tour of sites at the cemetery as we explored deeper our evolving relationship with the grave. You can find more photos here!

Artist and typewriter-er extraordinaire Tim Youd invited me to talk on his Up All Night St. Louis radio show. You can find it archived here with plenty of other good conversations for your ears.

I’m excited to be going up to Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery to be the keynote speaker for its 175th anniversary celebration! The May 10 event will have an opportunity to join both a talk about how the grave has changed over time and a cemetery visit where we will see Forest Lawn through that context. Click here for all the details.

I created a new zine—Follow Me: Angel Guides of the Victorian Cemetery—with my photographs of guiding angels from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and an essay on what this 19th-century iconography means in the history of how we remember our dead. It’s inspired by an article I wrote in 2018 for the Offing and features full-page photographs to show the detail of the weathered marble tombs. Pick up a copy on my Etsy.